UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

 

 

FORM 8-K

 

 

CURRENT REPORT

Pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d)

of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934

Date of Report (Date of Earliest Event Reported): September 28, 2021 (September 23, 2021)

 

 

Clearwater Analytics Holdings, Inc.

(Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in its Charter)

 

 

 

Delaware   001-40838   87-1043711
(State or other jurisdiction
of incorporation)
  (Commission
File Number)
  (I.R.S. Employer
Identification Number)

777 W. Main Street

Suite 900

Boise, ID 83702

(Address of Principal Executive Offices) (Zip Code)

Registrant’s telephone number, including area code: (208) 918-2400

 

 

Check the appropriate box below if the Form 8-K filing is intended to simultaneously satisfy the filing obligation of the registrant under any of the following provisions:

 

Written communications pursuant to Rule 425 under the Securities Act (17 CFR 230.425)

 

Soliciting material pursuant to Rule 14a-12 under the Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.14a-12)

 

Pre-commencement communications pursuant to Rule 14d-2(b) under the Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.14d-2(b))

 

Pre-commencement communications pursuant to Rule 13e-4(c) under the Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.13e-4(c))

Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Act:

 

Title of each class

 

Trading

Symbol(s)

 

Name of each exchange

on which registered

Class A Common Stock, $0.001 Par Value   CWAN   New York Stock Exchange

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is an emerging growth company as defined in Rule 405 of the Securities Act of 1933 (§230.405 of this chapter) or Rule 12b-2 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (§240.12b-2 of this chapter).

Emerging growth company  ☒

If an emerging growth company, indicate by check mark if the registrant has elected not to use the extended transition period for complying with any new or revised financial accounting standards provided pursuant to Section 13(a) of the Exchange Act.  ☐

 

 

 


Item 1.01.

Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement.

In connection with the initial public offering by Clearwater Analytics Holdings, Inc. (the “Company”) of its Class A common stock, $0.001 par value per share (the “Class A Common Stock”), described in the Registration Statement on Form S-1 (File No. 333-259155), as amended (the “Registration Statement”), the Company entered into the following agreements:

 

   

Second Amended and Restated Registration Rights Agreement, dated September 28, 2021, by and among Clearwater Analytics Holdings, Inc. and certain investors identified therein, a copy of which is filed as Exhibit 10.1 to this Current Report on Form 8-K and is incorporated by reference herein;

 

   

Stockholders’ Agreement, dated as of September 28, 2021, by and among Clearwater Analytics Holdings, Inc., WCAS XII Carbon Analytics Acquisition, L.P., WCAS XIII Carbon Analytics Acquisition, L.P., WCAS GP CW LLC, Welsh, Carson, Anderson & Stowe XII, L.P., Welsh, Carson, Anderson & Stowe XII Delaware, L.P., Welsh, Carson, Anderson & Stowe XII Delaware II, L.P., Welsh, Carson, Anderson & Stowe XII Cayman, L.P., WCAS XII Carbon Investors, L.P., WCAS XIII Carbon Investors, L.P. (collectively, “Welsh Carson”), WP CA Holdco, L.P. (“Warburg Pincus”) and Galibier Holdings, LP (“Permira” and, together with Welsh Carson and Warburg Pincus, the “Principal Equity Owners”), a copy of which is filed as Exhibit 10.2 to this Current Report on Form 8-K and is incorporated by reference herein;

 

   

Tax Receivable Agreement, dated as of September 28, 2021, by and among Clearwater Analytics Holdings, Inc., CWAN Holdings, LLC and the other parties thereto, a copy of which is filed as Exhibit 10.3 to this Current Report on Form 8-K and is incorporated by reference herein;

 

   

Third Amended and Restated Limited Liability Company Agreement of CWAN Holdings, LLC, dated as of September 28, 2021, by and among CWAN Holdings, LLC and the other parties thereto (the “LLC Agreement”), a copy of which is filed as Exhibit 10.4 to this Current Report on Form 8-K and is incorporated by reference herein; and

 

   

Credit Agreement, dated as of September 28, 2021 (the “Credit Agreement”), by and among Clearwater Analytics, LLC, as borrower, CWAN Acquisition, LLC, as holdings, the lenders party thereto and JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., as administrative agent, collateral agent and revolver agent, a copy of which is filed as Exhibit 10.5 to this Current Report on Form 8-K and is incorporated by reference herein.

The terms of these agreements are substantially the same as the terms set forth in the forms of such agreements filed as exhibits to the Registration Statement and as described therein.

The Principal Equity Owners have various relationships with the Company. For further information, see the section entitled “Certain Relationships and Related Party Transactions” in the Company’s prospectus, dated September 23, 2021, filed pursuant to Rule 424(b) of the Securities Act.

 

Item 2.03

Creation of a Direct Financial Obligation or an Obligation under an Off Balance Sheet Arrangement of a Registrant.

The information set forth in Item 1.01 regarding the Credit Agreement is incorporated by reference into this Item 2.03. The Credit Agreement provides for a $55 million term loan facility and a $125 million revolving facility.

 

Item 3.02.

Unregistered Sales of Equity Securities.

In connection with its initial public offering, the Company completed a series of organizational transactions, pursuant to which the Company issued an aggregate of: (i) 12,866,089 shares of its Class A Common Stock to entities affiliated with Dragoneer Investment Group, LLC and Durable Capital Partners; (ii) 11,151,110 shares of its Class B common stock, $0.001 par value per share (the “Class B Common Stock”), to entities affiliated with Dragoneer Investment Group, LLC and certain of our directors and continuing equity owners; (iii) 47,377,587 shares of its Class C common stock, $0.001 par value per share (the “Class C Common Stock”), to entities affiliated with Welsh, Carson, Anderson &

 

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Stowe; and (iv) 130,083,755 shares of its Class D common stock, $0.001 par value per share (the “Class D Common Stock”), to entities affiliated with Welsh Carson, Warburg Pincus LLC and Permira Advisers LLC. The issuances of the Class A Common Stock, Class B Common Stock, Class C Common Stock and Class D Common Stock described in this paragraph were made in reliance on Section 4(a)(2) of the Securities Act. The Company relied on this exemption from registration based in part on the nature of the transactions and the various representations made by the parties thereto.

 

Item 3.03.

Material Modifications to Rights of Security Holders.

The description in Item 5.03 below of the Certificate of Incorporation and Bylaws (each as defined below) is incorporated herein by reference.

 

Item 5.02

Departure of Directors or Certain Officers; Election of Directors; Appointment of Certain Officers; Compensatory Arrangements of Certain Officers

Upon consummation of the initial public offering, the Company granted 1,685,625 restricted stock units (“RSUs”) to its employees, including RSUs to certain named executive officers (the “IPO RSUs”) under its new 2021 omnibus incentive plan. Sandeep Sahai, Jim Cox, Scott Erickson and James Price were granted 430,308, 152,209, 99,488, and 84,122 IPO RSUs, respectively, which consist of 50% time-vesting IPO RSUs and 50% performance-vesting IPO RSUs. The time-vesting IPO RSUs will generally vest in 25% installments on each of the first four anniversaries of January 1, 2022, in each case, subject to continued employment through the applicable vesting date. Time-vesting IPO RSUs will generally be settled as soon as practicable following the applicable vesting date(s), and in any event within thirty (30) days following the applicable vesting date, in each case subject to continued employment through such settlement date. The performance-vesting IPO RSUs will vest in 33.33% installments on each of the first three anniversaries of January 1, 2022, based on the achievement of the Company’s annual revenue growth rate during the applicable year and, in each case, subject to continued employment through the applicable vesting date. During each annual performance-vesting period, 0% of the performance-vesting IPO RSUs eligible to vest with respect to each such performance period will vest if the Company’s annual revenue growth is less than 18%, 80% of the performance-vesting IPO RSUs eligible to vest with respect to each such performance period will vest if the Company’s annual revenue growth is at least 18% and less than 20%, 100% of the performance-vesting IPO RSUs eligible to vest with respect to each such performance period will vest if the Company’s annual revenue growth is at least 20% and less than 23%, and 110% of the performance-vesting IPO RSUs eligible to vest with respect to each such performance period will vest if the Company’s annual revenue growth is at least 23%; linear interpolation shall not apply with respect to the Company’s annual revenue growth achievement between the foregoing performance levels. During any annual performance period in which the Company’s annual revenue growth is in excess of 26%, the Company’s board of directors shall determine, in its sole discretion, the extent to which the performance-vesting IPO RSUs eligible to vest during such performance period are vested, provided, that in no event shall such vesting achievement be determined to be less than 110%. Performance-vesting IPO RSUs will generally be settled as soon as practicable following the date on which the compensation committee of the Company’s board of directors certifies achievement with respect to any annual performance period (the “Committee Certification Date”), and in any event within thirty (30) days following the applicable Committee Certification Date, in each case subject to continued employment through such settlement date.

In addition, the Company’s named executive officers will be eligible to receive an annual grant of RSUs beginning with the fiscal year ending December 31, 2022 (the “2022 fiscal year”). The RSUs for the 2022 fiscal year were granted to the named executive officers concurrently with the IPO RSUs. Sandeep Sahai, Jim Cox, Scott Erickson and James Price were granted 320,582, 273,154, 151,902, and 41,275 2022 RSUs, respectively. These RSUs are subject to the same vesting terms as the IPO RSUs, with the vesting commencement period also commencing on January 1, 2022.

The Company also entered into Tax Receivable Agreement Bonus Letters, each dated as of September 28, 2021 (the “TRA Bonus Letters”), by and among Clearwater Analytics Holdings, Inc. and each of Cindy Blendu, Jim Cox, Scott Erickson, James Price, Gayatri Raman, Sandeep Sahai, Subi Sethi, and Alphonse Valbrune, a copy of the form of which is filed as Exhibit 10.6 to this Current Report on Form 8-K and is incorporated by reference herein.

 

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Item 5.03.

Amendments to Articles of Incorporation or Bylaws.

On September 27, 2021, the Company filed an Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation (the “Certificate of Incorporation”) with the Secretary of State of the State of Delaware and the Company’s Amended and Restated Bylaws (the “Bylaws”) became effective on such date. The Certificate of Incorporation and the Bylaws are filed herewith as Exhibits 3.1 and 3.2, respectively, and are incorporated herein by reference. The descriptions and forms of the Certificate of Incorporation and Bylaws are substantially the same as the descriptions and forms set forth in and filed as exhibits to the Registration Statement.

 

Item 8.01.

Other Events.

On September 23, 2021, the Company announced the pricing of its initial public offering of 30,000,000 shares of its Class A Common Stock at a price to the public of $18.00 per share. In addition, the Company granted the underwriters a 30-day option to purchase up to 4,500,000 additional shares of Class A Common Stock (the “Additional Shares”) at the public offering price, less underwriting discounts and commissions.

On September 28, 2021, the Company completed its initial public offering of Class A Common Stock. The Company sold 34,500,000 shares of Class A Common Stock, including the Additional Shares after the underwriters fully exercised their option to purchase additional Class A Common Stock from the Company.

A copy of the Company’s press release is attached hereto as Exhibit 99.1 to this Current Report on Form 8-K and incorporated herein in its entirety.

 

Item 9.01

Financial Statements and Exhibits.

(d)    Exhibits.

 

Exhibit
No.

  

Description

  3.1    Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation of Clearwater Analytics Holdings, Inc., dated September 27, 2021
  3.2    Amended and Restated Bylaws of Clearwater Analytics Holdings, Inc., dated September 27, 2021
10.1    Registration Rights Agreement, dated September 28, 2021, by and among Clearwater Analytics Holdings, Inc. and certain holders identified therein
10.2    Stockholders Agreement, dated as of September 28, 2021, by and among Clearwater Analytics Holdings, Inc. and the Principal Equity Owners
10.3    Tax Receivable Agreement, dated as of September 28, 2021, by and among Clearwater Analytics Holdings, Inc., CWAN Holdings, LLC and the other parties thereto
10.4    Third Amended and Restated Limited Liability Company Agreement of CWAN Holdings, LLC, dated as of September 28, 2021, by and among CWAN Holdings, LLC and the other parties thereto
10.5    Credit Agreement, dated as of September  28, 2021, by and among Clearwater Analytics, LLC, as borrower, CWAN Acquisition, LLC, as holdings, the lenders party thereto and JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., as administrative agent, collateral agent and revolver agent
10.6    Form of Tax Receivable Agreement Bonus Letter
99.1    Press Release of Clearwater Analytics Holdings, Inc. dated September 23, 2021

 

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SIGNATURE

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.

 

Clearwater Analytics Holdings, Inc.
By:   /s/ Alphonse Valbrune
Name:   Alphonse Valbrune

Title:

 

Chief Legal Officer

Date: September 28, 2021

 

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Exhibit 3.1

AMENDED AND RESTATED

CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION

OF

CLEARWATER ANALYTICS HOLDINGS, INC.

Clearwater Analytics Holdings, Inc. (the “Company”), a corporation organized and existing under the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware (“DGCL”), does hereby certify as follows:

 

  (1)

The original Certificate of Incorporation of the Company was filed with the office of the Secretary of State of the State of Delaware on May 18, 2021 (the “Certificate of Incorporation”).

 

  (2)

This Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation (as amended or modified from time to time, this “Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation”) was duly adopted in accordance with Sections 228, 242 and 245 of the DGCL.

 

  (3)

This Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation restates and integrates and further amends the Certificate of Incorporation of the Company in its entirety.

 

  (4)

The text of the Certificate of Incorporation hereby is amended and restated in entirety as follows:

ARTICLE I

NAME

The name of the Company is Clearwater Analytics Holdings, Inc.

ARTICLE II

REGISTERED OFFICE AND AGENT

The address of the Company’s registered office in the State of Delaware is 251 Little Falls Drive, Wilmington, New Castle County, Delaware 19808. The name of its registered agent at such address is Corporation Service Company.

ARTICLE III

PURPOSE

The purpose of the Company is to engage in any lawful act or activity for which corporations may be organized under the DGCL.


ARTICLE IV

CAPITAL STOCK

Section 4.1 Definitions. For purposes of this Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation, reference to:

(a) “Affiliate” of any person or entity shall mean any other person or entity controlled by, controlling or under common control with such first person; where “control” (including, with its correlative meanings, “controlling,” “controlled by” and “under common control with”) means possession, directly or indirectly, of the power to direct or cause the direction of management or policies (whether through ownership of securities, by contract or otherwise).

(b) “Associate” when used to indicate a relationship with any person, means: (i) any corporation, partnership, unincorporated association or other entity of which such person is a director, officer or partner or is, directly or indirectly, the owner of 20% or more of any class of voting stock; (ii) any trust or other estate in which such person has at least a 20% beneficial interest or as to which such person serves as trustee or in a similar fiduciary capacity; and (iii) any relative or spouse of such person, or any relative of such spouse, who has the same residence as such person.

(c) “Business Combination” when used in reference to the Company and any Interested Stockholder, means:

(i) any merger or consolidation of the Company or any direct or indirect majority-owned subsidiary of the Company (1) with an Interested Stockholder, or (2) with any other corporation, partnership, unincorporated association or other entity if the merger or consolidation is caused by an Interested Stockholder and as a result of such merger or consolidation Section b of Article X is not applicable to the surviving entity;

(ii) any sale, lease, exchange, mortgage, pledge, transfer or other disposition (in one transaction or a series of transactions), except proportionately as a stockholder of the Company, to or with an Interested Stockholder, whether as part of a dissolution or otherwise, of assets of the Company or of any direct or indirect majority-owned subsidiary of the Company which assets have an aggregate market value equal to 10% or more of either the aggregate market value of all the assets of the Company determined on a consolidated basis or the aggregate market value of all the outstanding stock of the Company;

(iii) any transaction that results in the issuance or transfer by the Company or by any direct or indirect majority-owned subsidiary of the Company of any stock of the Company or of such subsidiary to an Interested Stockholder, except: (1) pursuant to the exercise, exchange or conversion of securities exercisable for, exchangeable for or convertible into stock of the Company or any such subsidiary which securities were outstanding prior to the time that an Interested Stockholder became such; (2) pursuant to a merger under Section 251(g) of the DGCL; (3) pursuant to a dividend or distribution paid or made, or the exercise, exchange or conversion of securities

 

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exercisable for, exchangeable for or convertible into stock of the Company or any such subsidiary which security is distributed, pro rata to all holders of a class or series of stock of the Company subsequent to the time an Interested Stockholder became such; (4) pursuant to an exchange offer by the Company to purchase stock made on the same terms to all holders of said stock; or (5) any issuance or transfer of stock by the Company; provided, however, that in no case under items (3) through (5) of this subsection (iii) shall there be an increase in an Interested Stockholder’s proportionate share of the stock of any class or series of the Company or of the voting stock of the Company (except as a result of immaterial changes due to fractional share adjustments);

(iv) any transaction involving the Company or any direct or indirect majority-owned subsidiary of the Company that has the effect, directly or indirectly, of increasing the proportionate share of the stock of any class or series, or securities convertible into the stock of any class or series, of the Company or of any such subsidiary that is owned by an Interested Stockholder, except as a result of immaterial changes due to fractional share adjustments or as a result of any purchase or redemption of any shares of stock not caused, directly or indirectly, by an Interested Stockholder; or

(v) any receipt by an Interested Stockholder of the benefit, directly or indirectly (except proportionately as a stockholder of the Company), of any loans, advances, guarantees, pledges, or other financial benefits (other than those expressly permitted in subsections (i) through (iv) above) provided by or through the Company or any direct or indirect majority-owned subsidiary.

(d) “Holding Unit” means one Class A Common Unit of CWAN Holdings, LLC.

(e) “Interested Stockholder” means any person (other than the Company or any direct or indirect majority-owned subsidiary of the Company) that (A) is the owner of 15% or more of the outstanding voting stock of the Company, or (B) is an Affiliate or Associate of the Company and was the owner of 15% or more of the outstanding voting stock of the Company at any time within the three-year period immediately prior to the date on which it is sought to be determined whether such person is an interested stockholder; and the Affiliates and Associates of such person; but “Interested Stockholder” shall not include any of (i) the Investors (or any Investor) or any of its respective Affiliates, transferees or successors or any “group,” or any member of any such group, to which any such persons are a party under Rule 13d-5 of the Exchange Act (as defined below), or (ii) any person whose ownership of shares in excess of the 15% limitation set forth herein is the result of any action taken solely by the Company; provided that in the case of clause (ii), such person shall be an Interested Stockholder if thereafter such person acquires additional shares of voting stock of the Company, except as a result of further corporate action not caused, directly or indirectly, by such person. For the purpose of determining whether a person is an Interested Stockholder, the voting stock of the Company deemed to be outstanding shall include stock deemed to be owned by the person through application of the definition of “Owner” but shall not include any other unissued stock of the Company that may be issuable pursuant to any agreement, arrangement or understanding, or upon exercise of conversion rights, warrants or options, or otherwise.

 

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(f) “Investors” means, collectively, (i) the Permira Investors, (ii) the Warburg Investors and (iii) the WCAS Investors and, individually, any of the foregoing.

(g) “LLC Agreement” means the Third Amended and Restated Limited Liability Company Agreement of CWAN Holdings, LLC (formerly known as Carbon Analytics Holdings LLC), as the same may be amended, restated and in effect from time to time.

(h) “Owner,” including the terms “own” and “owned,” when used with respect to any stock, means a person that individually or with or through any of its affiliates or associates:

(i) beneficially owns such stock, directly or indirectly; or

(ii) has (1) the right to acquire such stock (whether such right is exercisable immediately or only after the passage of time) pursuant to any agreement, arrangement or understanding, or upon the exercise of conversion rights, exchange rights, warrants or options, or otherwise; provided, however, that a person shall not be deemed the owner of stock tendered pursuant to a tender or exchange offer made by such person or any of such person’s affiliates or associates until such tendered stock is accepted for purchase or exchange; or (2) the right to vote such stock pursuant to any agreement, arrangement or understanding; provided, however, that a person shall not be deemed the owner of any stock because of such person’s right to vote such stock if the agreement, arrangement or understanding to vote such stock arises solely from a revocable proxy or consent given in response to a proxy or consent solicitation made to ten or more persons; or

(iii) has any agreement, arrangement or understanding for the purpose of acquiring, holding, voting (except voting pursuant to a revocable proxy or consent as described in item (2) of subsection (ii) above), or disposing of such stock with any other person that beneficially owns, or whose affiliates or associates beneficially own, directly or indirectly, such stock.

(i) “Permira Investor” means Galibier Purchaser LLC.

(j) “Permitted Transfer” means, with respect to Class C Common Stock or Class D Common Stock, any Transfer (i) to any Permitted Transferee or (ii) following which such Class C Common Stock or Class D Common Stock continues to be beneficially owned by one or more of the Investors, their respective Affiliates and/or a Permitted Transferee.

(k) “Permitted Transferees” means, with respect to any holder of Class C Common Stock or holder of Class D Common Stock, any of (i) any Permira Investor or any Affiliate of a Permira Investor, any investment fund or alternative investment vehicle, directly or indirectly, affiliated with, or managed or sponsored by, a Permira Investor or an Affiliate of a Permira Investor, (ii) any Warburg Investor or any Affiliate of a Warburg Investor, any investment fund or alternative investment vehicle, directly or indirectly, affiliated with, or managed or sponsored by, a Warburg Investor or an Affiliate of a Warburg Investor or (iii) any WCAS Investor or any Affiliate of a WCAS Investor, any investment fund or alternative investment vehicle, directly or indirectly, affiliated with, or managed or sponsored by, a WCAS Investor or an Affiliate of a WCAS Investor, in each case, provided that, prior to any transfer of Common Stock, such Person shall have executed and delivered to the Company a Joinder Agreement agreeing to be bound by the terms of the Stockholders Agreement in the form of Annex A attached thereto to the extent such Person is not already bound by the terms of the Stockholders Agreement.

 

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(l) “Transfer” of a share of Class C Common Stock or Class D Common Stock means, directly or indirectly, any sale, assignment, transfer, exchange, gift, bequest, pledge, hypothecation or other disposition or encumbrance of such share or any legal or beneficial interest in such share, in whole or in part, whether or not for value and whether voluntary or involuntary or by operation of law; provided, however, that the following shall not be considered a “Transfer”: (i) the granting of a revocable proxy to officers or directors of the Company at the request of the Board (as defined below) in connection with actions to be taken at annual or special meetings of stockholders; (ii) entering into a voting trust, agreement or arrangement (with or without granting a proxy) solely with the Company or its stockholders that (x) is disclosed either in a Schedule 13D filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission or in writing to the Secretary of the Company and (y) does not involve any payment of cash, securities, property or other consideration to the holder of the shares subject thereto other than the mutual promise to vote shares in a designated manner; (iii) entering into a voting or support agreement (with or without granting a proxy) in connection with any merger, consolidation or other business combination of the Company that is approved by the Board, whether effectuated through one transaction or series of related transactions (including a tender offer followed by a merger in which holders of Class A Common Stock receive the same consideration per share paid in the tender offer); (iv) the pledge or other granting of a security interest in any Common Stock to one or more lenders pursuant to any Permitted Financing (as defined in the Second Amended and Restated Registration Rights Agreement, dated September 28, 2021 by and among the Company and the Investors and other parties thereto from time to time, as amended from time to time) by any Investor or any of its Affiliates (provided, that, a foreclosure on such shares or other exercise of remedies by the pledgee shall constitute a “Transfer,” unless such foreclosure or similar action qualifies as a Permitted Transfer); or (v) the fact that the spouse of any holder of Class C Common Stock or Class D Common Stock possesses or obtains an interest in such holder’s shares of Class C Common Stock or Class D Common Stock arising solely by reason of the application of the community property laws of any jurisdiction, so long as no other event or circumstance shall exist or have occurred that constitutes a “Transfer” of such shares of Class C Common Stock or Class D Common Stock.

(m) “Warburg Investor” means WP CA Holdco, L.P.

(n) “WCAS Investors” means, collectively, (i) WCAS XII Carbon Analytics Acquisition, L.P., (ii) WCAS GP CW LLC, (iii) WCAS XIII Carbon Analytics Acquisition, L.P., (iv) Welsh, Carson, Anderson & Stowe XII, L.P., (v) Welsh, Carson, Anderson & Stowe XII Delaware, L.P., (vi) Welsh, Carson, Anderson & Stowe XII Delaware II, L.P., (vii) Welsh, Carson, Anderson & Stowe XII Cayman, L.P., (viii) WCAS XII Carbon Investors, L.P. and (ix) WCAS XIII Carbon Investors, L.P.

 

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Section 4.2 Authorized Capital.

The total number of shares of all classes of capital stock which the Company shall have authority to issue is 3,100,000,000, consisting of five classes: 1,500,000,000 shares of Class A Common Stock, par value $0.001 per share (“Class A Common Stock”), 500,000,000 shares of Class B Common Stock, par value $0.001 per share (“Class B Common Stock”), 500,000,000 shares of Class C Common Stock, par value $0.001 per share (“Class C Common Stock”), 500,000,000 shares of Class D Common Stock, par value $0.001 per share (“Class D Common Stock” and collectively with the Class A Common Stock, the Class B Common Stock and the Class C Common Stock, the “Common Stock”) and 100,000,000 shares of preferred stock, par value $0.001 per share (“Preferred Stock”).

The number of authorized shares of Preferred Stock or Common Stock may be increased or decreased (but not below the number of shares thereof then outstanding) by the affirmative vote of the holders of a majority in voting power of the stock of the Company entitled to vote thereon irrespective of the provisions of Section 242(b)(2) of the DGCL (or any successor provision thereto), and no vote of the holders of any of the Class A Common Stock, Class B Common Stock, Class C Common Stock, Class D Common Stock or Preferred Stock voting separately as a class shall be required therefor, unless a vote of any such holder is required pursuant to this Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation (including any certificate of designation relating to any series of Preferred Stock). Notwithstanding the immediately preceding sentence, the number of authorized shares of any particular class or series may not be decreased below the number of shares of such class or series then outstanding, plus:

(a) in the case of Class A Common Stock, the number of shares of Class A Common Stock issuable in connection with (i) the exchange of all shares of Class B Common Stock issuable as described in Section 4.6 below, (ii) the exchange of all shares of Class C Common Stock issuable as described in Section 4.6 below, (iii) the conversion of all shares of Class D Common Stock issuable as described in Sections 4.7 and 4.8 below and (iv) the exercise of outstanding options, warrants, exchange rights, conversion rights or similar rights for Class A Common Stock;

(b) in the case of Class B Common Stock, the number of shares of Class B Common Stock issuable in connection with (i) the conversion of all outstanding shares of Class C Common Stock issuable as described in Sections 4.7 below and 4.8 below, and (ii) the exercise of outstanding options, warrants, exchange rights, conversion rights or similar rights for Class B Common Stock;

(c) in the case of Class C Common Stock, the number of shares of Class C Common Stock issuable in connection with the exercise of outstanding options, warrants, exchange rights, conversion rights or similar rights for Class C Common Stock; and

(d) in the case of Class D Common Stock, the number of shares of Class D Common Stock issuable in connection with (i) the exchange of all shares of Class C Common Stock issuable as described in Section 4.6 below and (ii) the exercise of outstanding options, warrants, exchange rights, conversion rights or similar rights for Class D Common Stock.

 

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Section 4.3 Common Stock.

(a) Voting Rights.

(i) Each holder of Class A Common Stock or Class B Common Stock, as such, will be entitled to one vote for each share of Class A Common Stock or Class B Common Stock, as applicable, held by such holder as of the applicable record date on any matter that is submitted to a vote or for the consent of the stockholders of the Company, and each holder of Class C Common Stock or Class D Common Stock, as such, will be entitled to ten votes for each share of Class C Common Stock or Class D Common Stock, as applicable, held by such holder as of the applicable record date on any matter that is submitted to a vote or for the consent of the stockholders of the Company, except that, in each case, to the fullest extent permitted by law, holders of shares of each class of Common Stock, as such, will have no voting power with respect to, and will not be entitled to vote on, any amendment to this Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation (including any certificate of designations relating to any series of Preferred Stock) that relates solely to the terms of any outstanding Preferred Stock if the holders of such Preferred Stock are entitled to vote as a separate class thereon under this Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation (including any certificate of designations relating to any series of Preferred Stock) or under the DGCL.

(ii) (A) The holders of the outstanding shares of Class A Common Stock and Class D Common Stock, voting together as a single class, shall be entitled to vote separately without the vote of any other class of Common Stock or security upon any amendment to this Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation (including by merger, consolidation, reorganization or similar event) that would alter or change the powers, preferences or special rights of such classes of Common Stock in a manner that is disproportionately adverse to such classes as compared to the Class B Common Stock or Class C Common Stock and (B) the holders of the outstanding shares of Class B Common Stock and Class C Common Stock, voting together as a single class, shall be entitled to vote separately without the vote of any other class of Common Stock or security upon any amendment to this Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation (including by merger, consolidation, reorganization or similar event) that would alter or change the powers, preferences or special rights of such classes of Common Stock in a manner that is disproportionately adverse to such classes as compared to the Class A Common Stock or Class D Common Stock.

(iii) Except as otherwise required in this Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation or by applicable law, the holders of Common Stock will vote together as a single class on all matters (or, if any holders of Preferred Stock are entitled to vote together with the holders of Common Stock, as a single class with the holders of Preferred Stock).

(b) Dividends. Subject to the preferences applicable to any series of Preferred Stock, if any, outstanding at any time, the holders of Class A Common Stock and Class D Common Stock shall be entitled to share equally, on a per share basis, in such dividends and other distributions of cash, property or shares of stock of the Company as may be declared by the Board of Directors of the Company (the “Board”) from time to time with respect to the Class A Common Stock and Class D Common Stock out of assets or funds of the Company legally available therefor. Other than in connection with a dividend declared by the Board in connection with a “poison pill” or similar stockholder rights plan, dividends shall not be declared or paid on the Class B Common Stock or Class C Common Stock and the holders of shares of Class B Common Stock and Class C Common Stock shall have no right to receive dividends in respect of such shares of Class B Common Stock and Class C Common Stock.

 

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(c) Liquidation. Subject to the preferences applicable to any series of Preferred Stock, if any, outstanding at any time, in the event of the voluntary or involuntary liquidation, dissolution, distribution of assets or winding up of the Company, all assets of the Company of whatever kind available for distribution to the holders of Common Stock shall be divided among and paid ratably to the holders of Class A Common Stock and Class D Common Stock and Class B Common Stock and Class C Common Stock in proportion to the number of shares held by each such stockholder; provided, that, without limiting the right of holders of Class B Common Stock and Class C Common Stock to exchange shares thereof together with the corresponding Holdings Units, the holders of shares of Class B Common Stock and Class C Common Stock shall be entitled to receive $0.001 per share, and upon receiving such amount, the holders of shares of Class B Common Stock and Class C Common Stock as such, shall not be entitled to receive any other assets or funds of the Company.

Section 4.4 Transfer of Class B Common Stock and Class C Common Stock.

(a) A holder of Class B Common Stock or Class C Common Stock, as applicable, may surrender shares of Class B Common Stock or Class C Common Stock, as applicable, to the Company for cancellation for no consideration at any time. Following the surrender, or other acquisition, of any shares of Class B Common Stock or Class C Common Stock, as applicable, to or by the Company, the Company will take all actions necessary to cancel and retire such shares and such shares shall not be re-issued by the Company.

(b) Except as set forth in Section 4.4(a), a holder of Class B Common Stock or Class C Common Stock, as applicable, may transfer or assign shares of Class B Common Stock or Class C Common Stock, as applicable (or any legal or beneficial interest in such shares) (directly or indirectly, including by operation of law), only if such holder also simultaneously transfers an equal number of such holder’s Holding Units in compliance with the LLC Agreement. The transfer restrictions described in this Section 4.4(b) are referred to as the “Restrictions”.

(c) Any purported transfer of shares of Class B Common Stock or Class C Common Stock, as applicable, in violation of the Restrictions shall be null and void. If, notwithstanding the Restrictions, a Person shall, voluntarily or involuntarily, purportedly become, or attempt to become, the purported owner (“Purported Owner”) of shares of Class B Common Stock or Class C Common Stock, as applicable, in violation of the Restrictions, then the Purported Owner shall not obtain any rights in, to or with respect to such shares of Class B Common Stock or Class C Common Stock, as applicable (the “Restricted Shares”), and the purported transfer of the Restricted Shares to the Purported Owner shall not be recognized by the Company, the Company’s transfer agent (the “Transfer Agent”) or the Secretary of the Company.

(d) Upon a determination by the Board that a Person has attempted or may attempt to transfer or to acquire Restricted Shares in violation of the Restrictions, the Company may take such action as it deems advisable to refuse to give effect to such transfer or acquisition on the books and records of the Company, including without limitation to cause the Transfer Agent or the Secretary of the Company, as applicable, to not record the Purported Owner as the record owner of the Restricted Shares, and to institute proceedings to enjoin or rescind any such transfer or acquisition.

 

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(e) Each outstanding share of Class B Common Stock will, automatically and without further action on the part of the Company or any holder of Class B Common Stock, convert into one fully paid and non-assessable share of Class A Common Stock immediately prior to any transfer of such Class B Common Stock by the registered holder thereof, other than a transfer to a Permitted Transferee (as defined in the LLC Agreement), but only with respect to such shares of Class B Common Stock actually so transferred. Upon any conversion pursuant to this Section 4.4(e), the certificate or certificates that represented immediately prior thereto the shares of Class B Common Stock that were so converted, automatically and without further action, shall represent the same number of shares of Class A Common Stock without the need for surrender or exchange thereof. As promptly as practicable following a conversion pursuant to this Section 4.4(e), the Company shall deliver or cause to be delivered to any holder whose shares of Class B Common Stock have been converted as a result of such conversion the number of shares of Class A Common Stock deliverable upon such conversion registered in the name of such holder. To the extent such shares are settled through the facilities of The Depository Trust Company or if any agent for the registration or transfer of shares of Class B Common Stock is then duly appointed and acting (the “Class B Transfer Agent”), through the book entry facilities of the Class B Transfer Agent, the Company will, upon the written instruction of such holder, deliver the shares of Class A Common Stock deliverable to such holder, through the facilities of The Depository Trust Company, to the account of the participant of The Depository Trust Company designated by such holder or through the book entry facilities of the Class B Transfer Agent. Each share of Class B Common Stock that is converted pursuant to this Section 4.4(e) shall thereupon be retired by the Company and shall not be available for reissuance.

(f) The Board may, to the extent permitted by law, from time to time establish, modify, amend or rescind, by bylaw or otherwise, regulations and procedures not inconsistent with the provisions of this Section 4.4 for determining whether any transfer or acquisition of shares of Class B Common Stock or Class C Common Stock, as applicable, would violate the Restrictions and for the orderly application, administration and implementation of the provisions of this Section 4.4. Any such procedures and regulations shall be kept on file with the Secretary of the Company and with the Transfer Agent and shall be made available for inspection by and, upon written request shall be mailed to, holders of shares of Class B Common Stock or Class C Common Stock, as applicable.

(g) All certificates or book entries representing shares of Class B Common Stock or Class C Common Stock, as applicable, shall bear a legend substantially in the following form (or in such other form as the Board may determine): THESE SECURITIES REPRESENTED BY THIS [CERTIFICATE][BOOK ENTRY] ARE SUBJECT TO THE RESTRICTIONS (INCLUDING RESTRICTIONS ON TRANSFER) SET FORTH IN THE AMENDED AND RESTATED CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION OF THE COMPANY AS IT MAY BE AMENDED AND/OR RESTATED (A COPY OF WHICH IS ON FILE WITH THE SECRETARY OF THE COMPANY AND SHALL BE PROVIDED FREE OF CHARGE TO ANY STOCKHOLDER MAKING A REQUEST THEREFOR).

 

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Section 4.5 Preferred Stock.

(a) Preferred Stock may be issued from time to time by the Company for such consideration as may be fixed by the Board. The Board is hereby expressly authorized, by resolution or resolutions, to provide, out of the unissued shares of Preferred Stock, for one or more series of Preferred Stock and, with respect to each such series, to fix, without further stockholder approval, the designation of such series, the powers (including voting powers), preferences and relative, participating, optional and other special rights, and the qualifications, limitations or restrictions thereof, of such series of Preferred Stock and the number of shares of such series, as may be permitted by the DGCL. The powers, preferences and relative, participating, optional and other special rights of, and the qualifications, limitations or restrictions of, each series of Preferred Stock, if any, may differ from those of any and all other series at any time outstanding.

(b) Except as otherwise required by law, holders of Common Stock shall not be entitled to vote on any amendment to this Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation (including any certificate of designation relating to any series of Preferred Stock) that relates solely to the terms of one or more outstanding series of Preferred Stock if the holders of such affected series are entitled, either separately or together with the holders of one or more other such series, to vote thereon pursuant to this Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation (including any certificate of designation relating to any series of Preferred Stock) or pursuant to the DGCL.

(c) Except as otherwise required by law, holders of any series of Preferred Stock shall be entitled to only such voting rights, if any, as shall expressly be granted thereto by this Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation (including any certificate of designation relating to such series of Preferred Stock).

Section 4.6 Exchange of Class B Common Stock and Class C Common Stock. Shares of Class B Common Stock or Class C Common Stock, as applicable, may be redeemed, together with the corresponding Holding Units, at any time and from time to time in exchange for shares of Class A Common Stock or, in the case of the Class C Common Stock, Class D Common Stock, in accordance with the LLC Agreement.

Section 4.7 Conversion of Class C Common Stock and Class D Common Stock.

(a) Each share of Class C Common Stock and each share of Class D Common Stock may be converted into one fully paid and non-assessable share of Class B Common Stock and one fully paid and non-assessable share of Class A Common Stock, respectively, at any time at the option of the holder of such share of Class C Common Stock or Class D Common Stock. In order to exercise the conversion privilege, the holder of any shares of Class C Common Stock or shares of Class D Common Stock to be converted shall deliver to the Company written or electronic notice that the holder elects to convert shares of Class C Common Stock or shares of Class D Common Stock, as applicable, to the extent specified in such notice and, if such shares are certificated, such holder shall present and surrender the certificate or certificates representing such shares during usual business hours at the principal executive offices of the Company or, if any agent for the registration or transfer of shares of Class C Common Stock or shares of Class D

 

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Common Stock is then duly appointed and acting (the “Class C Transfer Agent” and the “Class D Transfer Agent,” respectively), at the office of the Class C Transfer Agent or Class D Transfer Agent, as applicable. If required by the Company, any certificate for shares of Class C Common Stock or shares of Class D Common Stock, as applicable, surrendered for conversion shall be accompanied by instruments of transfer, in form reasonably satisfactory to the Company and the Class C Transfer Agent or Class D Transfer Agent, as applicable, duly executed by the holder of such shares or such holder’s duly authorized representative. As promptly as practicable after the receipt of such notice and the surrender of the certificate or certificates representing such shares of Class C Common Stock or Class D Common Stock as aforesaid and in any event within three business days of the receipt of such notice and certificates, if such shares are certificated, the Company shall issue and deliver at such office to such holder, or on such holder’s written order, a certificate or certificates for the number of full shares of Class B Common Stock or Class A Common Stock, as applicable, (if certificated) issuable upon the conversion of such shares. To the extent such shares of Class C Common Stock or Class D Common Stock as aforesaid are settled through the facilities of The Depository Trust Company or through the book entry facilities of the Class C Transfer Agent or Class D Transfer Agent, the Company shall, upon such holder’s written order, issue and deliver the number of full shares of Class B Common Stock or shares of Class A Common Stock, as applicable, issuable upon the conversion of such shares through the facilities of The Depository Trust Company to the account of the participant of The Depository Trust Company designated by such holder or through the book entry facilities of the Class C Transfer Agent or Class D Transfer Agent. Each conversion of shares of Class C Common Stock or shares of Class D Common Stock shall be deemed to have been effected on (i) the date on which such notice shall have been received by the Company, the Class C Transfer Agent or the Class D Transfer Agent, as applicable (subject to receipt by the Company, the Class C Transfer Agent or the Class D Transfer Agent, as applicable, within five business days thereafter of any required instruments of transfer as aforesaid), or (ii) such later date specified in or pursuant to such notice, and the person or persons in whose name or names any certificate or certificates for shares of Class B Common Stock or shares of Class A Common Stock shall be issuable upon such conversion as aforesaid shall be deemed to have become on said date the holder or holders of record of the shares represented thereby.

(b) Notwithstanding anything in this Section 4.7 to the contrary, any holder may withdraw or amend a notice of conversion, in whole or in part, prior to the effectiveness of the conversion, at any time prior to 5:00 p.m., New York City time, on the business day immediately preceding the date of the conversion (or any such later time as may be required by applicable law) by delivery of a written or electronic notice of withdrawal to the Company, the Class C Transfer Agent or the Class D Transfer Agent, as applicable, specifying (i) if applicable, the certificate numbers of the withdrawn shares of Class C Common Stock or Class D Common Stock, (ii) if any, the number of shares of Class C Common Stock or Class D Common Stock as to which the notice of conversion remains in effect and (iii) if the holder so determines, a new conversion date or any other new or revised information permitted in a notice of conversion. A notice of conversion may specify that the conversion is to be contingent (including as to timing) upon the consummation of a purchase by another person (whether in a tender or exchange offer, an underwritten offering or otherwise) of shares of the Class B Common Stock or shares of the Class A Common Stock into which the Class C Common Stock or Class D Common Stock, respectively, is convertible, or contingent (including as to timing) upon the closing of an announced merger, consolidation or other transaction or event in which the Class B Common Stock or Class A Common Stock would be exchanged or converted or become exchangeable for or convertible into cash or other securities or property.

 

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Section 4.8 Automatic Conversion of Class C Common Stock and Class D Common Stock. Each outstanding share of Class C Common Stock or Class D Common Stock will, automatically and without further action on the part of the Company or any holder of Class C Common Stock or Class D Common Stock, (i) convert into one fully paid and non-assessable share of Class A Common Stock immediately prior to any Transfer of such Class C Common Stock or Class D Common Stock by the registered holder thereof, other than a Permitted Transfer, but only with respect to such shares of Class C Common Stock or Class D Common Stock actually so Transferred or (ii) convert into one fully paid and non-assessable share of Class B Common Stock or Class A Common Stock, respectively, upon the earlier to occur of (A) the date that the WCAS Investors and their respective Affiliates own less than 5% of the Common Stock and (B) September 28, 2028. Upon any conversion pursuant to this Section 4.8, the certificate or certificates that represented immediately prior thereto the shares of Class C Common Stock or Class D Common Stock that were so converted, automatically and without further action, shall represent the same number of shares of Class B Common Stock or Class A Common Stock, as applicable, without the need for surrender or exchange thereof. As promptly as practicable following a conversion pursuant to this Section 4.8, the Company shall deliver or cause to be delivered to any holder whose shares of Class C Common Stock or Class D Common Stock have been converted as a result of such conversion the number of shares of Class B Common Stock or Class A Common Stock deliverable upon such conversion, as applicable, registered in the name of such holder. To the extent such shares are settled through the facilities of The Depository Trust Company or if any Class C Transfer Agent is then duly appointed and acting, through the book entry facilities of the Class C Transfer Agent or the Class D Transfer Agent, as applicable, the Company will, upon the written instruction of such holder, deliver the shares of Class B Common Stock or Class A Common Stock deliverable to such holder, through the facilities of The Depository Trust Company, to the account of the participant of The Depository Trust Company designated by such holder or through the book entry facilities of the Class C Transfer Agent or Class D Transfer Agent. Each share of Class C Common Stock and Class D Common Stock that is converted pursuant to this Section 4.8 shall thereupon be retired by the Company and shall not be available for reissuance.

Section 4.9 Unconverted or Unexchanged Shares. If less than all of the shares of Class B Common Stock, Class C Common Stock or Class D Common Stock evidenced by a certificate or certificates surrendered to the Company are converted or exchanged, as applicable, the Company shall execute and deliver to, or upon the written order of, the holder of such certificate or certificates a new certificate or certificates evidencing the number of shares of Common Stock which are not converted or exchanged without charge to the holder.

Section 4.10 No Conversion Rights of Class A Common Stock or Class B Common Stock. The Class A Common Stock and the Class B Common Stock shall not have any conversion rights, provided that shares of the Class B Common Stock shall be convertible as set forth in Section 4.4(e) and exchangeable, together with the corresponding Holdings Units, as set forth in Section 4.6.

 

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Section 4.11 Reservation of Shares. The Company will at all times reserve and keep available authorized and unissued shares of the applicable shares of Common Stock that are issuable upon conversion or exchange of all outstanding shares of Class B Common Stock, Class C Common Stock or Class D Common Stock, as applicable. The Company covenants that all the shares of the applicable Common Stock that are issued upon the conversion or exchange of Class B Common Stock, Class C Common Stock or Class D Common Stock, will, upon issuance, be validly issued, fully paid and non-assessable.

Section 4.12 Distributions with Respect to Converted or Exchanged Shares. No conversion or exchange pursuant to this Article IV shall impair the right of the converting or exchanging stockholder to receive any dividends or other distributions payable on shares so converted or exchanged in respect of a record date that occurs prior to the effective date for such conversion or exchange. For the avoidance of doubt, no converting or exchanging stockholder shall be entitled to receive, in respect of a single record date, dividends or other distributions both on shares that are converted or exchanged by such stockholder and on shares received by such stockholder in such conversion or exchange.

Section 4.13 Taxes. The issuance of shares of Class A Common Stock or shares of Class D Common Stock upon the exercise by holders of shares of Class B Common Stock or Class C Common Stock of their rights under the LLC Agreement to exchange Class B Common Stock or Class C Common Stock with a Holding Unit will be made without charge to the holders of the shares of Class B Common Stock or Class C Common Stock for any transfer taxes, stamp taxes or duties or other similar tax in respect of the issuance; provided, however, that if any such shares of Class A Common Stock or Class D Common Stock are to be issued in a name other than that of the then record holder of the shares of Class B Common Stock or Class C Common Stock being exchanged (or The Depository Trust Company or its nominee for the account of a participant of The Depository Trust Company that will hold the shares for the account of such holder or the book entry facilities of the agent for the registration or transfer of shares of Class B Common Stock or Class C Transfer Agent), then such holder or the person in whose name such shares are to be delivered shall pay to the Company the amount of any tax that may be payable in respect of any transfer involved in the issuance or shall establish to the reasonable satisfaction of the Company that the tax has been paid or is not payable.

ARTICLE V

AMENDMENT OF THE CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION AND BYLAWS

(a) Notwithstanding anything contained in this Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation to the contrary, from and after the date on which the Investors and their Affiliates, collectively or singly, cease to beneficially own at least 50% of the combined voting power of all the then-outstanding shares of Common Stock (the “Trigger Event”) the following provisions in this Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation may be amended, altered, repealed or rescinded, in whole or in part, or any provision inconsistent therewith or herewith may be adopted, only by the affirmative vote of the holders of at least 66 2/3% in voting power of all the then-outstanding shares of Common Stock entitled to vote thereon: Article V, Article VI, Article VII, Article VIII, Article IX, Article X and Article XI. For the purposes of this Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation, beneficial ownership of shares shall be determined in

 

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accordance with Rule 13d-3 promulgated under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”). For the purposes of this Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation, except for Article IX; (i) “Person” shall mean any individual, corporation, limited liability company, limited or general partnership, joint venture, association, joint-stock company, trust, unincorporated organization or other entity, whether domestic or foreign; and (ii) “control” (including the terms “controlled by” and “under common control with”), with respect to the relationship between or among two or more Persons, shall mean the possession, directly or indirectly, of the power to direct or cause the direction of the affairs or management of a Person, whether through the ownership of voting securities, by contract or otherwise.

(b) The Board is expressly authorized to make, repeal, alter, amend and rescind, in whole or in part, the bylaws of the Company (as in effect from time to time, the “Bylaws”) without the assent or vote of the stockholders in any manner not inconsistent with the laws of the State of Delaware or this Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in this Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation or any provision of law which might otherwise permit a lesser vote of the stockholders, in addition to any vote of the holders of any class or series of capital stock of the Company required herein (including any certificate of designation relating to any series of Preferred Stock), the Bylaws or applicable law, from and after the Trigger Event, the affirmative vote of the holders of at least 66 2/3% in voting power of all the then-outstanding shares of Common Stock of the Company entitled to vote thereon, voting together as a single class, shall be required in order for the stockholders of the Company to alter, amend, repeal or rescind, in whole or in part, any provision of the Bylaws or to adopt any provision inconsistent therewith.

ARTICLE VI

BOARD OF DIRECTORS

(a) Except as otherwise provided in this Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation or the DGCL, the business and affairs of the Company shall be managed by or under the direction of the Board. Except as otherwise provided for or fixed pursuant to the provisions of Article IV hereof (including any certificate of designation with respect to any series of Preferred Stock) and this Article VI relating to the rights of the holders of any series of Preferred Stock to elect additional directors, the total number of directors shall be determined from time to time exclusively by resolution adopted by the Board, subject to the rights granted to the Investors pursuant to the Stockholders Agreement, dated September 28, 2021 by and among the Company and the Investors (as amended from time to time, the “Stockholders Agreement”). The directors (other than those directors elected by the holders of any series of Preferred Stock, voting separately as a series or together with one or more other such series, as the case may be) shall be divided into three classes designated Class I, Class II and Class III. Subject to the Stockholders Agreement, each class shall consist, as nearly as possible, of one-third of the total number of such directors. Class I directors shall initially serve for a term expiring at the first annual meeting of stockholders following the date the Common Stock is first publicly traded (the “IPO Date”), Class II directors shall initially serve for a term expiring at the second annual meeting of stockholders following the IPO Date and Class III directors shall initially serve for a term expiring at the third annual meeting of stockholders following the IPO Date. At each succeeding annual meeting, successors to the class of directors whose term expires at that annual

 

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meeting shall be elected for a term expiring at the third succeeding annual meeting of stockholders. If the number of such directors is changed, subject to the Stockholders Agreement, any increase or decrease shall be apportioned among the classes so as to maintain the number of directors in each class as nearly equal as possible, and any such additional director of any class elected to fill a newly created directorship resulting from an increase in such class shall hold office for a term that shall coincide with the remaining term of that class, but in no case shall a decrease in the number of directors remove or shorten the term of any incumbent director. Any such director shall hold office until the annual meeting at which his or her term expires and until his or her successor shall be elected and qualified, or his or her death, resignation, retirement, disqualification or removal from office. Subject to the Stockholders Agreement, the Board is authorized to assign members of the Board to their respective class.

(b) Subject to the rights granted to the holders of any one or more series of Preferred Stock then outstanding and any rights granted to one or more of the Investors and their respective Affiliates pursuant to the Stockholders Agreement, any newly-created directorship on the Board that results from an increase in the number of directors and any vacancy occurring in the Board (whether by death, resignation, retirement, disqualification, removal or other cause) shall be filled by a majority of the directors then in office, even if less than a quorum, by a sole remaining director or by the stockholders; provided, however, that, subject to the Stockholders Agreement, from and after the Trigger Event, any newly-created directorship on the Board that results from an increase in the number of directors and any vacancy occurring on the Board shall be filled only by a majority of the directors then in office, even if less than a quorum, or by a sole remaining director (and not by the stockholders). Any director elected to fill a vacancy or newly created directorship shall hold office until the next election of the class for which such director shall have been chosen and until his or her successor shall be elected and qualified, or until his or her earlier death, resignation, retirement, disqualification or removal.

(c) Any or all of the directors (other than the directors elected by the holders of any series of Preferred Stock of the Company, voting separately as a series or together with one or more other such series, as the case may be) may, subject to the Stockholders Agreement, be removed at any time either with or without cause by affirmative vote of a majority in voting power of all outstanding shares of Common Stock entitled to vote thereon; provided, however, that from and after the Trigger Event, any such director or all such directors may be removed only for cause and only by the affirmative vote of the holders of at least 66 2/3% in voting power of all the then outstanding shares of Common Stock of the Company entitled to vote thereon. Elections of directors need not be by written ballot unless the Bylaws shall so provide.

(d) During any period when the holders of any series of Preferred Stock, voting separately as a series or together with one or more series, have the right to elect additional directors, then upon commencement and for the duration of the period during which such right continues: (i) the then otherwise total authorized number of directors of the Company shall automatically be increased by such specified number of directors, and the holders of such Preferred Stock shall be entitled to elect the additional directors so provided for or fixed pursuant to said provisions, and (ii) each such additional director shall serve until such director’s successor shall have been duly elected and qualified, or until such director’s right to hold such office terminates pursuant to said provisions, whichever occurs earlier, subject to his or her earlier death, resignation, retirement, disqualification or removal. Except as otherwise provided

 

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by the Board in the resolution or resolutions establishing such series, whenever the holders of any series of Preferred Stock having such right to elect additional directors are divested of such right pursuant to the provisions of such stock, the terms of office of all such additional directors elected by the holders of such stock, or elected to fill any vacancies resulting from the death, resignation, disqualification or removal of such additional directors, shall forthwith terminate and the total authorized number of directors of the Company shall be reduced accordingly.

ARTICLE VII

LIMITATION OF DIRECTOR LIABILITY

(a) To the fullest extent permitted by the DGCL as it now exists or may hereafter be amended, a director of the Company shall not be personally liable to the Company or its stockholders for monetary damages for breach of fiduciary duty owed to the Company or its stockholders.

(b) Neither the amendment nor repeal of this Article VII, nor the adoption of any provision of this Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation, nor, to the fullest extent permitted by the DGCL, any modification of law shall eliminate, reduce or otherwise adversely affect any right or protection of a current or former director of the Company existing at the time of such amendment, repeal, adoption or modification.

ARTICLE VIII

CONSENT OF STOCKHOLDERS IN LIEU OF MEETING; ANNUAL AND SPECIAL MEETINGS OF STOCKHOLDERS

(a) Prior to the Trigger Event, any action required or permitted to be taken at any annual or special meeting of stockholders of the Company may be taken without a meeting, without prior notice and without a vote, if a consent or consents in writing, setting forth the action so taken, shall be signed by the holders of outstanding stock having not less than the minimum number of votes that would be necessary to authorize or take such action at a meeting at which all shares entitled to vote thereon were present and voted and shall be delivered to the Company by delivery to its registered office in the State of Delaware, its principal place of business, or an officer or agent of the Company having custody of the books in which proceedings of meetings of stockholders are recorded. Delivery made to the Company’s registered office shall be made by hand, overnight courier or by certified or registered mail, return receipt requested. From and after the Trigger Event, any action required or permitted to be taken by the stockholders of the Company must be effected at a duly called annual or special meeting of such holders and may not be effected by any consent in writing by such holders; provided, however, that any action required or permitted to be taken by the holders of Preferred Stock, voting separately as a series or separately as a class with one or more other such series, may be taken without a meeting, without prior notice and without a vote, to the extent expressly so provided by the applicable certificate of designation relating to such series of Preferred Stock.

 

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(b) Except as otherwise required by law and subject to the rights of the holders of any series of Preferred Stock, special meetings of the stockholders of the Company for any purpose or purposes may only be called in the manner provided in the Bylaws.

(c) An annual meeting of stockholders for the election of directors to succeed those whose terms expire and for the transaction of such other business as may properly come before the meeting, shall be held at such place, if any, on such date, and at such time as shall be fixed in the manner provided in the Bylaws.

ARTICLE IX

COMPETITION AND CORPORATE OPPORTUNITIES

(a) In recognition and anticipation that (i) certain directors, principals, members, officers, associated funds, employees and/or other representatives of one or more of the Investors and their respective Affiliates may serve as directors, officers or agents of the Company, (ii) one or more of the Investors and their respective Affiliates may now engage and may continue to engage in the same or similar activities or related lines of business as those in which the Company, directly or indirectly, may engage and/or other business activities that overlap with or compete with those in which the Company, directly or indirectly, may engage, and (iii) members of the Board who are not employees of the Company (“Non-Employee Directors”) and their respective Affiliates may now engage and may continue to engage in the same or similar activities or related lines of business as those in which the Company, directly or indirectly, may engage and/or other business activities that overlap with or compete with those in which the Company, directly or indirectly, may engage, and/or transactions and/or matters that may be an investment or corporate or business opportunity or offer a prospective economic or competitive advantage in which the Company or any of its controlled Affiliates, directly or indirectly, could have an interest or expectancy, the provisions of this Article IX are set forth to regulate and define the conduct of certain affairs of the Company with respect to certain classes or categories of business opportunities as they may involve one or more of the Investors, the Non-Employee Directors or their respective Affiliates and the powers, rights, duties and liabilities of the Company and its directors, officers and stockholders in connection therewith.

(b) None of (i) an Investor or any of its Affiliates or (ii) any Non-Employee Director (including any Non-Employee Director who serves as an officer of the Company in both his or her director and officer capacities) (the Persons (as defined below) identified in clauses (i) and (ii) above being referred to, collectively, as “Identified Persons” and, individually, as an “Identified Person”) shall, to the fullest extent permitted by law, have any duty to refrain from, directly or indirectly, (1) engaging in the same or similar business activities or lines of business in which the Company or any of its Affiliates now engages or proposes to engage or (2) otherwise competing with the Company or any of its Affiliates, and, to the fullest extent permitted by law, no Identified Person shall be liable to the Company or its stockholders or to any Affiliate of the Company for breach of any fiduciary duty solely by reason of the fact that such Identified Person engages in any such activities. To the fullest extent permitted by law, the Company hereby renounces any interest or expectancy in, or right to be offered an opportunity to participate in, any business opportunity which may be a corporate opportunity for an Identified Person and the Company or any of its Affiliates, except as provided in Section (c) of this Article

 

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IX. Subject to Section (c) of this Article IX, in the event that any Identified Person acquires knowledge of a potential transaction or other matter or business opportunity which may be a corporate opportunity for itself, herself or himself and the Company or any of its Affiliates, such Identified Person shall, to the fullest extent permitted by law, have no fiduciary duty or other duty (contractual or otherwise) to communicate, present or offer such transaction or other business opportunity to the Company or any of its Affiliates and, to the fullest extent permitted by law, shall not be liable to the Company or its stockholders or to any Affiliate of the Company for breach of any fiduciary duty or other duty (contractual or otherwise) as a stockholder, director or officer of the Company solely by reason of the fact that such Identified Person pursues or acquires such corporate opportunity for itself, herself or himself, offers or directs such corporate opportunity to another Person, or does not present such corporate opportunity to the Company or any of its Affiliates.

(c) Notwithstanding Section (b) of this Article IX, the Company does not renounce its interest in any corporate opportunity offered to any Non-Employee Director (including any Non-Employee Director who serves as an officer of the Company) if such opportunity is expressly offered to such person in writing solely in his or her capacity as a director or officer of the Company, and the provisions of Section (b) of this Article IX shall not apply to any such corporate opportunity. The Company and its Affiliates do not have any rights in and to the business ventures of any Identified Person, or the income or profits derived therefrom and the Company agrees that each of the Identified Persons may do business with any potential or actual customer or supplier of the Company.

(d) In addition to and notwithstanding the foregoing provisions of this Article IX, a corporate opportunity shall not be deemed to be a potential corporate opportunity for the Company if it is a business opportunity that (i) the Company is neither financially or legally able, nor contractually permitted to undertake, (ii) from its nature, is not in the line of the Company’s business or is of no practical advantage to the Company or (iii) is one in which the Company has no interest or reasonable expectancy.

(e) For purposes of this Article IX, (i) “Affiliate” shall mean (a) in respect of any Investor, any Person that, directly or indirectly, is controlled by such Investor, controls such Investor or is under common control with such Investor and shall include any principal, member, director, partner, stockholder, officer, employee or other representative of any of the foregoing (other than the Company and any entity that is controlled by the Company) and (b) in respect of the Company, any Person that, directly or indirectly, is controlled by the Company; (ii) “Person” shall mean any individual, corporation, general or limited partnership, limited liability company, joint venture, trust, association or any other entity; and (iii) “control” (including the terms “controlled by” and “under common control with”), with respect to the relationship between or among two or more Persons, shall mean the possession, directly or indirectly, of the power to direct or cause the direction of the affairs or management of a Person, whether through the ownership of voting securities, by contract or otherwise.

 

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(f) To the fullest extent permitted by law, any Person purchasing or otherwise acquiring any interest in any shares of capital stock of the Company shall be deemed to have notice of and to have consented to the provisions of this Article IX. Neither the alteration, amendment, addition to or repeal of this Article IX, nor the adoption of any provision of this Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation (including any certificate of designation relating to any series of Preferred Stock) inconsistent with this Article IX, shall eliminate or reduce the effect of this Article IX in respect of any business opportunity first identified or any other matter occurring, or any cause of action, suit or claim that, but for this Article IX, would accrue or arise, prior to such alteration, amendment, addition, repeal or adoption.

ARTICLE X

DGCL SECTION 203

(a) The Company hereby expressly elects not to be governed by Section 203 of the DGCL.

(b) Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Company shall not engage in any Business Combination, at any point in time at which the Company’s Common Stock is registered under Sections 12(b) or 12(g) of the Exchange Act, with any Interested Stockholder for a period of three years following the time that such stockholder became an Interested Stockholder, unless:

(i) prior to such time, the Board approved either the Business Combination or the transaction that resulted in the stockholder becoming an Interested Stockholder;

(ii) upon consummation of the transaction that resulted in the stockholder becoming an Interested Stockholder, the Interested Stockholder owned at least 85% of the voting stock of the Company outstanding at the time the transaction commenced, excluding for purposes of determining the voting stock outstanding (but not the outstanding voting stock owned by the Interested Stockholder) those shares (A) owned by persons who are directors and also officers and (B) issued under employee stock plans in which employee participants do not have the right to determine confidentially whether shares held subject to the plan will be tendered in a tender or exchange offer; or

(iii) at or subsequent to such time, the Business Combination is approved by the Board and authorized at an annual or special meeting of stockholders by the affirmative vote of at least 66 2/3% in voting power of all the then-outstanding shares of the Company that is not owned by the Interested Stockholder.

ARTICLE XI

MISCELLANEOUS

(a) If any provision or provisions of this Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation shall be held to be invalid, illegal or unenforceable as applied to any circumstance for any reason whatsoever: (i) the validity, legality and enforceability of such provision in any other circumstance and of the remaining provisions of this Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation (including, without limitation, each portion of any paragraph of this Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation containing any such provision held to be invalid, illegal or unenforceable that is not itself held to be invalid, illegal or unenforceable) shall not in any way

 

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be affected or impaired thereby and (ii) to the fullest extent possible, the provisions of this Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation (including, without limitation, each such portion of any paragraph of this Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation containing any such provision held to be invalid, illegal or unenforceable) shall be construed so as to permit the Company to protect its directors, officers, employees and agents from personal liability in respect of their good faith service to or for the benefit of the Company to the fullest extent permitted by law.

(b) Exclusive Forum.

(i) Unless the Company selects or consents in writing to the selection of an alternative forum, the Court of Chancery of the State of Delaware (or, if and only if the Court of Chancery does not have subject matter jurisdiction, another state court sitting in the State of Delaware or, if and only if neither the Court of Chancery nor any state court sitting in the State of Delaware has subject matter jurisdiction, then the federal district court for the District of Delaware) shall, to the fullest extent permitted by law, be the sole and exclusive forum for (1) any derivative action or proceeding brought on behalf of the Company, (2) any action asserting a claim of breach of a fiduciary duty owed by any director, officer, or other employee or stockholder of the Company to the Company or the Company’s stockholders, creditors or other constituents, or a claim of aiding and abetting any such breach of fiduciary duty, (3) any action asserting a claim against the Company or any director or officer of the Company arising pursuant to any provision of the DGCL or this Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation or the Bylaws (as either may be amended and/or restated from time to time) or as to which the DGCL confers jurisdiction on the Court of Chancery of the State of Delaware, (4) any action to interpret, apply, enforce or determine the validity of this Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation or the Bylaws, (5) any action asserting a claim against the Company or any director or officer of the Company governed by the internal affairs doctrine or (6) any other action asserting an “internal corporate claim” as that term is defined in Section 115 of the DGCL.

(ii) Unless the Company selects or consents in writing to the selection of an alternative forum, the federal district court of the District of Delaware shall be the sole and exclusive forum for the resolution of any complaint asserting a cause of action arising under the Securities Act against the Company or any director or officer of the Company.

(iii) Any person or entity purchasing or otherwise acquiring any interest in any security of the Corporation shall be deemed to have notice of and consented to the provisions of this Article XI.

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, Clearwater Analytics Holdings, Inc. has caused this Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation to be executed by its duly authorized officer on September 27, 2021.

 

Clearwater Analytics Holdings, Inc.
By:  

/s/ Sandeep Sahai

  Name: Sandeep Sahai
  Title: Chief Executive Officer

 

[Signature Page to Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation]

Exhibit 3.2

AMENDED AND RESTATED BYLAWS

OF

CLEARWATER ANALYTICS HOLDINGS, INC.

* * * * *

ARTICLE I

Offices

Section 1.01 Registered Office. The address of the registered office of Clearwater Analytics Holdings, Inc. (the “Company”) in the State of Delaware is 251 Little Falls Drive, Wilmington, New Castle County, Delaware 19808. The name of the Company’s registered agent at such address is Corporation Service Company. The Company may also have offices in such other places in the United States or elsewhere (and may change the Company’s registered agent) as the Board of Directors of the Company (the “Board”) may, from time to time, determine or as the business of the Company may require.

ARTICLE II

Meetings of Stockholders

Section 2.01 Annual Meetings. Annual meetings of stockholders of the Company may be held at such place, if any, either within or without the State of Delaware, and at such time and date as the Board shall determine and state in the notice of meeting. The Board may, in its sole discretion, determine that any meeting of stockholders of the Company shall not be held at any place, but may instead be held solely by means of remote communication as described in Section 2.10 hereof and in accordance with the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware (the “DGCL”). At the annual meeting, the stockholders of the Company shall elect directors and transact such other business as may properly be brought before the annual meeting. The Board may postpone, reschedule or cancel any annual meeting of stockholders of the Company.

Section 2.02 Special Meetings. Except as otherwise required by law and subject to the rights of the holders of any series of Preferred Stock (as defined in the Company’s Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation as then in effect (as the same may be amended and/or restated from time to time, the “Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation”)), special meetings of the stockholders of the Company for any purpose or purposes may be called at any time only by or at the direction of the Board or the Chairman of the Board; provided, however, that at any time before the Trigger Event (as defined in the Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation), special meetings of the stockholders of the Company for any purpose or purposes shall be called only by or at the direction of the Board or the Chairman of the Board at the request of the holders of the majority of the combined voting power of all the outstanding shares of Common Stock (as defined in the Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation). Special meetings of the stockholders of the Company may be held at such place, if any, either within or without the State of Delaware, and at such time and date as determined by the Board,


the Chairman of the Board, and the Chief Executive Officer (the “CEO”) and, before the Trigger Event, by or at the direction of the Board, the Chairman of the Board or the CEO at the request of holders of 50% or more of the voting power of all the outstanding shares of Common Stock. The Board may postpone, reschedule or cancel any special meeting of stockholders of the Company; provided, however, that with respect to any special meeting of stockholders of the Company previously scheduled at the request of holders of 50% or more of the voting power of all the outstanding shares of Common Stock, the Board shall not postpone, reschedule or cancel such special meeting without the prior written consent of such holders.

Section 2.03 Notice of Stockholder Business and Nominations; Form and Requirements of Notice.

(a) Annual Meetings of Stockholders.

(i) Nominations of persons for election to the Board and the proposal of other business to be considered by the stockholders of the Company may be made at an annual meeting of stockholders of the Company only (a) as provided in the Stockholders’ Agreement (as defined in the Company’s Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation as then in effect) (with respect to nominations of persons for election to the Board only); (b) pursuant to the Company’s notice of meeting (or any supplement thereto) delivered pursuant to Section 2.04 hereof; (c) by or at the direction of the Board or any authorized committee thereof; or (d) by any stockholder of the Company who is entitled to vote at the meeting, who complies with the notice procedures set forth in this Section 2.03(a) and who is a stockholder of record at the time such notice is delivered to the Secretary of the Company (the “Secretary”), on the record date for the determination of stockholders of the Company entitled to vote at the annual meeting, and at the time of the annual meeting.

(ii) Without qualification, for nominations or other business to be properly brought before an annual meeting by a stockholder of the Company pursuant to Section 2.03(a)(i)(d) hereof, the stockholder must have given timely notice thereof in writing to the Secretary, and, in the case of business other than nominations of persons for election to the Board, such other business must constitute a proper matter for stockholder action. To be timely, a stockholder’s notice shall be delivered to the Secretary at the principal executive offices of the Company in writing not later than the Close of Business (as defined below) on the 90th day, nor earlier than the Close of Business on the 120th day, prior to the first anniversary of the preceding year’s annual meeting (provided, for purposes of the Company’s first annual meeting of stockholders of the Company after the shares of its Class A Common Stock are first publicly traded (the “First Annual Meeting”), that such anniversary date shall be calculated as if the preceding year’s annual meeting had occurred on September 30, 2021); provided, however, that in the event that the date of the annual meeting is more than 30 days before or more than 70 days after the anniversary date of the previous year’s meeting, or if no annual meeting was held in the preceding year (other than in connection with the First Annual Meeting), notice by a stockholder of the Company to be timely must be so delivered not earlier than the Close of Business on the 120th day prior to such annual meeting and not later than the Close of Business on the later of the 90th day prior to

 

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such annual meeting or the 10th day following the day on which Public Announcement (as defined below) of the date of such meeting is first made. In no event shall the adjournment or postponement of an annual meeting (or the Public Announcement of the adjournment or postponement thereof) commence a new time period (or extend any time period) for the giving of a stockholder’s notice as described above. Notwithstanding anything in this Section 2.03(a)(ii) to the contrary, if the number of directors to be elected to the Board at an annual meeting is increased effective after the time period for which nominations would otherwise be due under this Section 2.03(a)(ii) and there is no Public Announcement naming all of the nominees for the additional directorships or specifying the size of the increased Board at least 100 days prior to the first anniversary of the prior year’s annual meeting of stockholders of the Company, then a stockholder’s notice required by this Section 2.03(a)(ii) shall also be considered timely, but only with respect to nominees for any new positions created by such increase, if it is received by the Secretary at the principal executive offices of the Company in writing not later than the Close of Business on the 10th day following the day on which such Public Announcement is first made.

(iii) To be in proper form, a stockholder’s notice to the Secretary (the stockholder providing such notice, the “Noticing Stockholder”) under this Section 2.03(a) must:

(A) as to each person whom the Noticing Stockholder proposes to nominate for election or re-election as a director, set forth or provide (i) the name, age, business address and residence address of such person, (ii) the principal occupation or employment of such person (present and for the past five years), (iii) the class or series and number of shares of the Company which are, directly or indirectly, owned beneficially and/or of record by such person (provided, however, that for purposes of this Section 2.03(a)(iii)(A), such person shall in all events be deemed to beneficially own any shares of the Company as to which such person has a right to acquire beneficial ownership of at any time in the future), (iv) all information relating to such person that is required to be disclosed in solicitations of proxies for election of directors in an election contest or that is otherwise required pursuant to and in accordance with Regulation 14A under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”), and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder, (v) a complete and accurate description of any current or prior agreements, arrangements and understandings, and any other material relationships between or among the Noticing Stockholder, any beneficial owner on whose behalf the nomination or proposal is made (collectively with the Noticing Stockholder, the “Holders”), any of their respective affiliates and associates within the meaning of Rule 12b-2 promulgated under the Exchange Act, or others acting in concert therewith, on the one hand, and each proposed nominee, and his or her respective affiliates and associates, or others acting in concert therewith, on the other hand, including all information that would be required to be disclosed pursuant to Item 404 promulgated under Regulation S-K (or any successor

 

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provision) if any Holder, any affiliate or associate thereof or person acting in concert therewith, were the “registrant” for purposes of such rule and the nominee were a director or executive officer of such registrant, (vi) a complete and accurate description of all direct and indirect compensation and other material monetary agreements, arrangements and understandings (whether written or oral) during the past three years, between or among any Holder, any of its affiliates or associates, or others acting in concert therewith, on the one hand, and each nominee, and his or her respective affiliates and associates, or others acting in concert therewith, on the other hand, (vii) a notarized letter signed by such person stating his or her acceptance of the nomination by the Holder, stating his or her intention to serve as a director for a full term on the Board, if elected, and consenting to being named as a nominee for director in a proxy statement relating to such election, (viii) a completed and signed questionnaire and written representation and agreement, each as may be required by Section 2.03(a)(iv) hereof and (ix) all information relating to the nominee that would be required by this Section 2.03(a) to be set forth in a stockholder’s notice with respect to a director nomination if such nominee were a stockholder providing notice of a director nomination to be made at the meeting;

(B) as to any business that the Noticing Stockholder proposes to bring before the meeting, set forth or provide (i) a brief description of the business desired to be brought before the meeting, (ii) the text, if any, of the proposal (including the text of any resolutions proposed for consideration and in the event that such business includes a proposal to amend the Amended and Restated Bylaws (“Bylaws”) of the Company, the language of the proposed amendment), (iii) the reasons for conducting such business at the meeting and any material interest in such business of any Holder and (iv) a complete and accurate description of any current or prior agreements, arrangements and understandings, and any other material relationships between or among the Holders, any of their respective affiliates and associates, or others acting in concert therewith, on the one hand, and each proposed nominee, and his or her respective affiliates and associates, or others acting in concert therewith, on the other hand, in connection with the proposal of such business by such Noticing Stockholder, including all information that would be required to be disclosed pursuant to Item 404 promulgated under Regulation S-K (or any successor provision) if any Holder, any affiliate or associate thereof or person acting in concert therewith, were the “registrant” for purposes of such rule and the nominee were a director or executive officer of such registrant; and

 

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(C) as to the Holders, set forth (i) the name and address of the Noticing Stockholder as they appear on the Company’s books, (ii) the name and address of all other Holders, if any, (iii) the class or series and number of shares of the Company that are, directly or indirectly, owned beneficially and/or of record by each Holder (provided, however, that for purposes of this Section 2.03(a)(iii)(C), any such person shall in all events be deemed to beneficially own any shares of the Company as to which such person has a right to acquire beneficial ownership of at any time in the future), any person controlling, directly or indirectly, or acting in concert with, any Holder and any person controlled by or under common control with any Holder, (iv) the Ownership Information (as defined below) for each Holder and Stockholder Associated Person (as defined below), (v) a representation by the Noticing Stockholder that the Noticing Stockholder is a stockholder of record of the Company entitled to vote at the meeting, will continue to be a stockholder of record of the Company entitled to vote at such meeting through the date of such meeting and intends to appear in person or by proxy at the meeting to propose such business or nomination, (vi) a representation as to whether any Holder intends or is part of a group which intends to (A) deliver a proxy statement and/or form of proxy to holders of at least the percentage of the outstanding shares of the Company required to approve or adopt the proposal or elect the nominee and/or (B) otherwise solicit proxies from stockholders of the Company in support of such proposal or nomination, (vii) a certification regarding whether each Holder has complied with all applicable federal, state and other legal requirements in connection with its acquisition of shares or other securities of the Company and such Holder’s acts or omissions as a stockholder of the Company and (viii) the Noticing Stockholder’s representation as to the accuracy of the information set forth in the notice.

The Company may also, as a condition to any such nomination or business being deemed properly brought before an annual meeting, request any Holder or proposed nominee to deliver to the Secretary, within five Business Days of any such request, including such other information as may be reasonably requested by the Company, including, without limitation, such other information as may be reasonably required by the Board, in its sole discretion, to determine (i) the eligibility of a proposed nominee to serve as a director of the Company, (ii) whether such nominee qualifies as an “independent director” or “audit committee financial expert” under applicable law, securities exchange rule or regulation, or any publicly disclosed corporate governance guideline or committee charter of the Company and (iii) such other information that the Board determines, in its sole discretion, could be material to a reasonable stockholder’s understanding of the independence, or lack thereof, of such nominee.

A Noticing Stockholder shall further update and supplement its notice of any nomination or other business proposed to be brought before a meeting, if necessary, so that the information provided or required to be provided in such notice pursuant to this Section 2.03 shall be true and correct (i) as of the record date for the meeting and (ii) as of the date that is 10 Business

 

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Days prior to the meeting or any adjournment, recess, rescheduling or postponement thereof and such update and supplement shall be delivered to the Secretary at the principal executive offices of the Company not later than five Business Days after the record date for the meeting (in the case of the update and supplement required to be made as of the record date) and not later than seven Business Days prior to the date for the meeting, if practicable (or, if not practicable, on the first practicable date prior to the meeting), or any adjournment, recess, rescheduling or postponement thereof (in the case of the update and supplement required to be made as of 10 Business Days prior to the meeting or any adjournment, recess, rescheduling or postponement thereof).

Notwithstanding the foregoing provisions of this Section 2.03, unless otherwise required by law, if the Noticing Stockholder (or a qualified representative of the Noticing Stockholder) does not appear at the meeting of stockholders of the Company and present his or her proposed business or nomination(s), such proposed business will not be transacted and any such nomination will be disregarded, notwithstanding that proxies in respect of such vote may have been received by the Company. For purposes of this Section 2.03, to be considered a qualified representative of a stockholder of the Company, a person must be a duly authorized officer, manager or partner of such stockholder or must be authorized by a writing executed by such stockholder (or a reliable reproduction or electronic transmission of the writing) stating that such person is authorized to act for such stockholder as a proxy at the meeting of stockholders of the Company, and such person must produce proof that he or she is a duly authorized officer, manager or partner of such stockholder or such writing or electronic transmission, or a reliable reproduction of the writing or electronic transmission, as well as valid government-issued photo identification, at the meeting of stockholders of the Company.

Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in these Bylaws, if the person whom the Noticing Stockholder proposes to nominate for election or re-election as a director pursuant to the notice procedures set forth in Sections 2.03(a)(ii) and (a)(iii) hereof becomes ineligible or unwilling to serve on the Board, the Noticing Stockholder may not, at the annual meeting for which its notice for nomination has previously been given, propose to nominate any substitute, successor or replacement nominee for election or re-election as a director, unless it gives a new timely notice pursuant to Section 2.03(a).

(D) For purposes of this section, “Ownership Information” means: (i) any option, warrant, convertible security, stock appreciation right, or similar right with an exercise or conversion privilege or a settlement payment or mechanism at a price related to any class or series of shares of the Company or with a value derived in whole in or part from the value of any class or series of shares of the Company, whether or

 

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not the instrument or right is subject to settlement in the underlying class or series of shares of the Company or otherwise (a “Derivative Instrument”) that is directly or indirectly owned beneficially by any Holder, Stockholder Associated Person or proposed nominee and any other direct or indirect opportunity to profit or share in any profit derived from any increase or decrease in the value of any security of the Company; (ii) any agreement, arrangement or understanding (including any contract to purchase or sell, acquisition or grant of any option, right or warrant to purchase or sell, swap or other instrument) between any Holder, Stockholder Associated Person, proposed nominee and/or any others acting in concert with any of the foregoing the intent or effect of which may be to transfer to or from any such person, in whole or in part, any of the economic consequences of ownership of any security of the Company or to increase or decrease the voting power of any such person or any of such person’s affiliates or associates with respect to any security of the Company; (iii) any proxy, contract, arrangement, understanding or relationship pursuant to which any Holder, Stockholder Associated Person or proposed nominee has a right to vote or has granted a right to vote any shares of the Company; (iv) any short interest held by any Holder, Stockholder Associated Person or proposed nominee presently or within the last 12 months in any shares of the Company (for purposes of this Section 2.03, a Holder, Stockholder Associated Person or proposed nominee is deemed to hold a short interest in a security if such Holder, Stockholder Associated Person or proposed nominee, directly or indirectly, through any contract, arrangement, understanding, relationship or otherwise, has the opportunity to profit or share in any profit derived from any decrease in the value of the subject security); (v) any right to dividends on shares of the Company owned beneficially by any Holder, Stockholder Associated Person or proposed nominee that is separated or separable from the underlying shares of the Company; (vi) any proportionate interest in shares of the Company; (vii) any Derivative Instrument held, directly or indirectly, by a general or limited partnership or limited liability company or similar entity in which any Holder, Stockholder Associated Person or proposed nominee is (a) a general partner or, directly or indirectly, beneficially owns any interest in a general partner, or (b) is the manager or managing member or, directly or indirectly, beneficially owns any interest in the manager or managing member of a limited liability company or similar entity; (viii) any performance-related fees (other than an asset-based fee) that any Holder, Stockholder Associated Person or proposed nominee is entitled to based on any increase or decrease in the value of shares of the Company or any Derivative Instrument; (ix) any direct or indirect legal, economic or financial interest (including short interest) of any Holder, Stockholder Associated Person or proposed nominee in the outcome of any vote to be taken at (A) any meeting of stockholders of the Company or (B) any meeting of stockholders of any other entity with respect to any matter that is related, directly or indirectly, to any

 

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nomination or business proposed by any Holder under this Bylaw; and (x) any arrangement, right or other interest described in the preceding clauses of this paragraph held by any member of the immediate family of any Holder, Stockholder Associated Person or proposed nominee that shares the same household with such Holder or Stockholder Associated Person. “Stockholder Associated Person” means as to any Holder (x) any person acting in concert with such Holder, (y) any person controlling, controlled by or under common control with such Holder or any of their respective affiliates and associates, or person acting in concert therewith and (z) any member of the immediate family of such Holder or an affiliate or associate of such Holder. As used in these Bylaws, the terms “affiliate(s)” and “associate(s)” shall have the meanings attributed to such terms in Rule 12b-2 under the Exchange Act and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder.

(iv) To be eligible to be a nominee for election or reelection as a director of the Company pursuant to this Section 2.03, a proposed nominee must deliver (in the case of nominee nominated by a stockholder of the Company pursuant to this Section 2.03, in accordance with the time periods and other requirements prescribed for delivery of notice under these Bylaws and applicable law) to the Secretary at the principal executive offices of the Company (i) a written questionnaire with respect to the background and qualification of such person and the background of any other person or entity on whose behalf the nomination is being made (in the form to be provided by the Secretary upon written request of any stockholder of record identified by name within five Business Days of such written request) and (ii) a written representation and agreement (in the form to be provided by the Secretary upon written request of any stockholder of record identified by name within five Business Days of such written request) that such person (A) is not and will not become a party to (1) any agreement, arrangement or understanding (whether written or oral) with, and has not given any commitment or assurance to, any person or entity as to how such person, if elected as a director of the Company, will act or vote in such capacity on any issue or question (a “Voting Commitment”) that has not been disclosed to the Company or (2) any Voting Commitment that could limit or interfere with such person’s ability to comply, if elected as a director of the Company, with such person’s fiduciary duties under applicable law, (B) is not and will not become a party to any agreement, arrangement or understanding (whether written or oral) with any person or entity other than the Company with respect to any direct or indirect compensation, reimbursement or indemnification in connection with service or action as a director of the Company that has not been disclosed to the Company, and (C) in such person’s individual capacity and on behalf of any person or entity on whose behalf the nomination is being made, would be in compliance, if elected as a director of the Company, and will comply with all applicable laws and all applicable rules of the U.S. exchanges upon which the securities of the Company are listed and all applicable publicly disclosed corporate governance, conflict of interest, confidentiality and stock ownership and trading policies and other guidelines of the Company duly adopted by the Board.

 

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(b) Special Meetings of Stockholders of the Company. Only such business shall be conducted at a special meeting of stockholders of the Company as shall have been brought before the meeting pursuant to the Company’s notice of meeting. Nominations of persons for election to the Board may be made at a special meeting of stockholders of the Company at which directors are to be elected pursuant to the Company’s notice of meeting (1) as provided in the Stockholders’ Agreement, (2) by or at the direction of the Board or any committee thereof or (3) provided that the Board has determined that directors shall be elected at such meeting, by any stockholder of the Company who is entitled to vote at the meeting, who complies with the notice procedures set forth in this Section 2.03 and who is a stockholder of record at the time such notice is delivered to the Secretary at the principal executive offices of the Company, on the record date for the determination of stockholders of the Company entitled to vote at the special meeting and at the time of the special meeting. In the event that the Company calls a special meeting of stockholders of the Company for the purpose of electing one or more directors to the Board, any such stockholder entitled to vote in such election of directors may nominate a person or persons (as the case may be) for election to such position(s) as specified in the Company’s notice of meeting if the stockholder’s notice as required, if such stockholder’s notice for a special meeting were for an annual meeting, by Section 2.03(a)(ii) hereof shall be delivered to the Secretary at the principal executive offices of the Company not earlier than the Close of Business on the 120th day prior to such special meeting and not later than the Close of Business on the later of the 90th day prior to such special meeting or the 10th day following the day on which Public Announcement is first made of the date of such special meeting and of the nominees proposed by the Board to be elected at such meeting. In no event shall the adjournment or postponement of a special meeting (or the Public Announcement of the adjournment or postponement thereof) commence a new time period (or extend any time period) for the giving of a stockholder’s notice as described above.

(c) General. (i) Only such persons who are nominated in accordance with the procedures set forth in this Section 2.03 or the Stockholders’ Agreement shall be eligible to serve as a director and only such business shall be conducted at an annual or special meeting of stockholders of the Company as shall have been brought before the meeting in accordance with the procedures set forth in this Section 2.03. Except as otherwise provided by law, the Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation or these Bylaws, the chairman of any meeting of stockholders of the Company shall, in addition to making any other determination that may be appropriate for the conduct of the meeting, have the power and duty to determine whether a nomination or any business proposed to be brought before the meeting was made or proposed, as the case may be, in accordance with the procedures set forth in these Bylaws and, if any proposed nomination or business is not in compliance with these Bylaws, to declare that such defective proposal or nomination shall be disregarded. The date and time of the opening and the closing of the polls for each matter upon which the stockholders of the Company will vote at a meeting shall be announced at the meeting by the chairman of the meeting. After the polls close, no ballots, proxies or votes or any revocations or changes thereto shall be accepted. The Board may adopt by resolution such rules, regulations and procedures for the conduct of the meeting of stockholders of the Company as it shall deem appropriate. Except to the extent inconsistent with such rules and regulations as adopted by the Board, the chairman of the meeting shall have the right and authority to convene and (for any or no reason) to recess and/or adjourn the meeting, to prescribe such rules, regulations and procedures and to do all such acts as, in the judgment of such

 

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chairman, are appropriate for the proper conduct of the meeting. Such rules, regulations or procedures, whether adopted by the Board or prescribed by the chairman of the meeting, may include, without limitation, the following: (a) the establishment of an agenda or order of business for the meeting; (b) rules and procedures for maintaining order at the meeting and the safety of those present; (c) limitations on attendance at or participation in the meeting to stockholders of the Company entitled to vote at the meeting, their duly authorized and constituted proxies or such other persons as the chairman of the meeting shall determine; (d) restrictions on entry to the meeting after the time fixed for the commencement thereof; (e) limitations on the time allotted to questions or comments by participants; and (f) restricting the use of cell phones, audio or video recording devices and similar devices at the meeting. Unless and to the extent determined by the Board or the chairman of the meeting, no meeting of stockholders of the Company shall be required to be held in accordance with the rules of parliamentary procedure.

(ii) Whenever used in these Bylaws, (a) “Public Announcement” shall mean disclosure (i) in a press release issued by the Company, provided such press release is issued by the Company following its customary procedures, that is reported by the Dow Jones News Service, Associated Press or comparable national news service, or is generally available on internet news sites or (ii) in a document publicly filed by the Company with the Securities and Exchange Commission pursuant to Sections 13, 14 or 15(d) of the Exchange Act and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder; (b) the “Close of Business” means 5:00 p.m. local time at the Company’s principal executive offices, and if an applicable deadline falls on the “Close of Business” on a day that is not a Business Day, then the applicable deadline shall be deemed to be the Close of Business on the immediately preceding Business Day; and (c) “Business Day” means each Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday which is not a day on which banking institutions in New York City are authorized or obligated by law or executive order to close. Further, “delivery” of any notice or materials by a stockholder as required under this Section 2.03 shall be made by both (1) hand delivery, overnight courier service, or by certified or registered mail, return receipt required, in each case, to the Secretary at the principal executive offices of the Company, and (2) electronic mail to the Secretary at the principal executive offices of the Company or such other email address for the Secretary as may be specified in the Company’s proxy statement for the annual meeting of stockholders immediately preceding such delivery of notice or materials.

(iii) Notwithstanding the foregoing provisions of this Section 2.03, the Noticing Stockholder shall also comply with all applicable requirements of the Exchange Act and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder with respect to the matters set forth in this Section 2.03; provided, however, that, to the fullest extent permitted by law, any references in these Bylaws to the Exchange Act or the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder are not intended to and shall not limit any requirements applicable to nominations or proposals as to any other business to be considered pursuant to these Bylaws (including Sections 2.03(a)(i)(d) and (b) hereof), and compliance with this Section 2.03 shall be the exclusive means for a stockholder of the Company to make nominations or submit other business at any meeting of stockholders of the Company (other than business properly brought under and in

 

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compliance with Rule 14a-8 of the Exchange Act (or any successor provision)). Nothing in these Bylaws shall be deemed to affect any rights of stockholders to request inclusion of proposals in the Company’s proxy statement pursuant to Rule 14a-8 under the Exchange Act or the rights of the holders of any class or series of stock having a preference over the common stock of the Company as to dividends or upon liquidation to elect directors under specified circumstances (including any certificate of designation relating to any series of Preferred Stock (as defined in the Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation as then in effect)).

(iv) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in this Section 2.03, for as long as the Stockholders’ Agreement remains in effect with respect to any of the Investors, the Investors (to the extent then subject to the Stockholders’ Agreement) shall not be subject to the notice procedures set forth in paragraph (a)(ii), paragraph (a)(iii) or paragraph (b) of this Section 2.03 with respect to any annual or special meeting of stockholders.

Section 2.04 Notice of Meetings. Whenever stockholders of the Company are required or permitted to take any action at a meeting, a timely notice in writing or by electronic transmission, in the manner provided in Section 232 of the DGCL, of the meeting, which shall state the place, if any, date and time of the meeting, the means of remote communication, if any, by which stockholders of the Company and proxyholders may be deemed to be present in person and vote at such meeting, the record date for determining the stockholders of the Company entitled to vote at the meeting, if such date is different from the record date for determining stockholders of the Company entitled to notice of the meeting, and, in the case of a special meeting, the purposes for which the meeting is called, shall be mailed to or transmitted electronically by the Secretary to each stockholder of record entitled to vote thereat as of the record date for determining the stockholders of the Company entitled to notice of the meeting. Unless otherwise provided by law, the Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation or these Bylaws, the notice of any meeting shall be given not less than 10 nor more than 60 days before the date of the meeting to each stockholder of the Company entitled to vote at such meeting as of the record date for determining the stockholders of the Company entitled to notice of the meeting.

Section 2.05 Quorum. Unless otherwise required by law, the Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation or the rules of any stock exchange upon which the Company’s securities are listed, the holders of record of a majority of the voting power of the issued and outstanding shares of the Company entitled to vote thereat, present in person or represented by proxy, shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business at all meetings of stockholders of the Company. Notwithstanding the foregoing, where a separate vote by a class or series or classes or series is required, a majority in voting power of the outstanding shares of such class or series or classes or series, present in person or represented by proxy, shall constitute a quorum entitled to take action with respect to the vote on that matter. Once a quorum is present at any meeting, it shall not be broken by the subsequent withdrawal of any stockholder of the Company.

 

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Section 2.06 Voting. Each stockholder entitled to vote at a meeting of stockholders of the Company or to express consent to corporate action in writing without a meeting may authorize another person or persons to act for such stockholder by proxy in any manner provided by applicable law, but no such proxy shall be voted or acted upon after three years from its date, unless the proxy provides for a longer period. A proxy shall be irrevocable if it states that it is irrevocable and if, and only as long as, it is coupled with an interest sufficient in law to support an irrevocable power. A stockholder of the Company may revoke any proxy that is not irrevocable by attending the meeting and voting in person or by delivering to the Secretary a written revocation of the proxy or a new proxy bearing a later date. Unless required by the Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation or applicable law, or determined by the chairman of the meeting to be advisable, the vote on any question need not be by ballot. On a vote by ballot, each ballot shall be signed by the stockholder voting, or by such stockholder’s proxy, if there be such proxy. When a quorum is present or represented at any meeting, the vote of the holders of a majority of the voting power of the shares of the Company present in person or represented by proxy and entitled to vote on the subject matter shall decide any question brought before such meeting, unless the question is one upon which, by express provision of applicable law, of the rules or regulations of any stock exchange applicable to the Company, of any regulation applicable to the Company or its securities, of the Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation or of these Bylaws, a different vote is required, in which case such express provision shall govern and control the decision of such question. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in these Bylaws and subject to the Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation, all elections of directors shall be determined by a plurality of the votes cast in respect of the shares present in person or represented by proxy at the meeting and entitled to vote on the election of directors.

Section 2.07 Chairman of Meetings. The Chairman of the Board, if one is elected, or, in his or her absence or disability, the CEO, or in the absence of the Chairman of the Board and the CEO, a person designated by the majority of the directors shall be the chairman of the meeting and, as such, shall preside at all meetings of the stockholders of the Company.

Section 2.08 Secretary of Meetings. The Secretary shall act as secretary at all meetings of the stockholders of the Company. In the absence or disability of the Secretary, the chairman of the meeting shall appoint a person to act as secretary at such meetings.

Section 2.09 Adjournment. The chairman of any meeting of stockholders of the Company shall have the power to adjourn the meeting from time to time, whether or not a quorum is present. At any meeting of stockholders of the Company, if less than a quorum be present, the chairman of the meeting or stockholders of the Company holding a majority in voting power of the shares of stock of the Company, present in person or by proxy and entitled to vote thereat, shall have the power to adjourn the meeting from time to time without notice other than announcement at the meeting until a quorum shall be present. Any business may be transacted at the adjourned meeting that might have been transacted at the meeting originally noticed. If the adjournment is for more than 30 days, a notice of the adjourned meeting shall be given to each stockholder of record entitled to vote at the meeting. If after the adjournment a new record date for determination of stockholders of the Company entitled to vote is fixed for the adjourned meeting, the Board shall fix as the record date for determining stockholders of the Company entitled to notice of such adjourned meeting the same or an earlier date as that fixed for determination of stockholders of the Company entitled to vote at the adjourned meeting, and shall give notice of the adjourned meeting to each stockholder of record entitled to vote at such adjourned meeting as of the record date so fixed for notice of such adjourned meeting.

 

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Section 2.10 Remote Communication. If authorized by the Board in its sole discretion, and subject to such rules, regulations and procedures as the Board may adopt, stockholders of the Company and proxyholders not physically present at a meeting of stockholders of the Company may, by means of remote communication:

(a) participate in a meeting of stockholders of the Company; and

(b) be deemed present in person and vote at a meeting of stockholders of the Company whether such meeting is to be held at a designated place or solely by means of remote communication; provided, however, that:

(i) the Company shall implement reasonable measures to verify that each person deemed present and permitted to vote at the meeting by means of remote communication is a stockholder of the Company or proxyholder;

(ii) the Company shall implement reasonable measures to provide such stockholders of the Company and proxyholders a reasonable opportunity to participate in the meeting and to vote on matters submitted to the stockholders of the Company, including an opportunity to read or hear the proceedings of the meeting substantially concurrently with such proceedings; and

(iii) if any stockholder of the Company or proxyholder votes or takes other action at the meeting by means of remote communication, a record of such vote or other action shall be maintained by the Company.

Section 2.11 Inspectors of Election. The Company may, and shall if required by law, in advance of any meeting of stockholders of the Company, appoint one or more inspectors of election, who may be employees of the Company, to act at the meeting or any adjournment thereof and to make a written report thereof. The Company may designate one or more persons as alternate inspectors to replace any inspector who fails to act. In the event that no inspector so appointed or designated is able to act at a meeting of stockholders of the Company, the chairman of the meeting shall appoint one or more inspectors to act at the meeting. Each inspector, before entering upon the discharge of his or her duties, shall take and sign an oath to execute faithfully the duties of inspector with strict impartiality and according to the best of his or her ability. The inspector or inspectors so appointed or designated shall (a) ascertain the number of shares of the Company outstanding and the voting power of each such share, (b) determine the shares of the Company represented at the meeting and the validity of proxies and ballots, (c) count all votes and ballots, (d) determine and retain for a reasonable period a record of the disposition of any challenges made to any determination by the inspectors and (e) certify their determination of the number of shares of the Company represented at the meeting and such inspectors’ count of all votes and ballots. Such certification and report shall specify such other information as may be required by law. In determining the validity and counting of proxies and ballots cast at any meeting of stockholders of the Company, the inspectors may consider such information as is permitted by applicable law. No person who is a candidate for an office at an election may serve as an inspector at such election.

 

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ARTICLE III

Board of Directors

Section 3.01 Powers. Except as otherwise provided in the Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation or the DGCL, the business and affairs of the Company shall be managed by or under the direction of the Board. The Board may exercise all such authority and powers of the Company and do all such lawful acts and things as are not, by the DGCL or the Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation, directed or required to be exercised or done by the stockholders of the Company.

Section 3.02 Number and Term; Chairman. Subject to the Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation and the Stockholders’ Agreement, the number of directors shall be fixed exclusively by resolution of the Board. The term of each director elected to the Board shall be as set forth in the Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation. Directors need not be stockholders of the Company. The Board shall elect a Chairman of the Board, who shall have the powers and perform such duties as provided in these Bylaws and as the Board may from time to time prescribe. The Chairman of the Board shall preside at all meetings of the Board at which he or she is present. If the Chairman of the Board is not present at a meeting of the Board, the CEO (if the CEO is a director) shall preside at such meeting, and, if the CEO is not present at such meeting or is not a director, a majority of the directors present at such meeting shall elect one of their members to preside.

Section 3.03 Resignations. Any director may resign at any time upon notice given in writing or by electronic transmission to the Board, the Chairman of the Board, the CEO or the Secretary. The resignation shall take effect at the time specified therein, and if no time is specified, at the time of its receipt. The acceptance of a resignation shall not be necessary to make it effective unless otherwise expressly provided in the resignation.

Section 3.04 Removal. Directors of the Company may be removed in the manner provided in the Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation and applicable law.

Section 3.05 Vacancies and Newly-Created Directorships. Except as otherwise provided by applicable law and subject to the Stockholders’ Agreement, vacancies occurring in any directorship (whether by death, resignation, retirement, disqualification, removal or other cause) and newly-created directorships resulting from any increase in the number of directors shall be filled in accordance with the Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation. Any director elected to fill a vacancy or newly-created directorship shall hold office until the next election of the class for which such director shall have been chosen and until his or her successor shall be elected and qualified, or until his or her earlier death, resignation, retirement, disqualification or removal.

Section 3.06 Meetings. Regular meetings of the Board may be held at such places and times as shall be determined from time to time by the Board, either within or without the State of Delaware. Special meetings of the Board may be called by the CEO of the Company or the Chairman of the Board or as provided by the Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation, and shall be called by the CEO or the Secretary if directed by the Board and shall be at such places and times as they or he or she shall fix. Notice need not be given of regular meetings of the Board. At least 24 hours before each special meeting of the Board, written notice, notice by electronic transmission or oral notice (either in person or by telephone) of the time, date and place of the meeting shall be given to each director.

 

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Unless otherwise indicated in the notice thereof, any and all business may be transacted at a special meeting of the Board.

Section 3.07 Quorum, Voting and Adjournment. A majority of the total number of directors shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business at a meeting of the Board. Except as otherwise provided by law, the Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation or these Bylaws, the act of a majority of the directors present at a meeting of the Board at which a quorum is present shall be the act of the Board. In the absence of a quorum, a majority of the directors present thereat may adjourn such meeting to another time and place. Notice of such adjourned meeting need not be given if the time and place of such adjourned meeting are announced at the meeting so adjourned.

Section 3.08 Committees; Committee Rules. The Board may, by resolution passed by a majority of the directors, designate one or more committees, each such committee to consist of one or more of the directors of the Company. The meetings of any such committee shall be held in compliance with these Bylaws. The Board may designate one or more directors as alternate members of any committee to replace any absent or disqualified member at any meeting of the committee. Any such committee, to the extent provided in the resolution of the Board establishing such committee, shall have and may exercise all the powers and authority of the Board in the management of the business and affairs of the Company, and may authorize the seal of the Company to be affixed to all papers that may require it. Notwithstanding the foregoing, no committee shall have the power or authority of the Board in reference to the following matters: (a) approving or adopting, or recommending to the stockholders of the Company, any action or matter (other than the election or removal of directors) expressly required by the DGCL to be submitted to stockholders of the Company for approval or (b) adopting, amending or repealing any Bylaw of the Company. All committees of the Board shall keep minutes of their meetings and shall report their proceedings to the Board when requested or required by the Board. Each committee of the Board may fix its own rules of procedure and shall hold its meetings as provided by such rules, except as may otherwise be provided by a resolution of the Board designating such committee. Unless otherwise provided in such a resolution, (i) the presence of at least a majority of the members of the committee shall be necessary to constitute a quorum for the transaction of business at a meeting of the committee and (ii) all matters shall be determined by a majority vote of the members present at a meeting of the committee at which a quorum is present. In the absence of a quorum, a majority of the directors present may adjourn the meeting of the committee to another time and place. Notice of such adjourned meeting need not be given if the time and place of such adjourned meeting are announced at the meeting so adjourned. Unless otherwise provided in such a resolution, in the event that a member and that member’s alternate, if alternates are designated by the Board, of such committee is or are absent or disqualified, the member or members thereof present at any meeting and not disqualified from voting, whether or not such member or members constitute a quorum, may unanimously appoint another member of the Board to act at the meeting in place of any such absent or disqualified member, to the extent permitted by applicable law.

 

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Section 3.09 Action Without a Meeting. Unless otherwise restricted by the Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation, any action required or permitted to be taken at any meeting of the Board or of any committee thereof may be taken without a meeting if all members of the Board or any committee thereof, as the case may be, consent thereto in writing or by electronic transmission, and the writing or writings or electronic transmission or transmissions are filed in the minutes of proceedings of the Board or committee. Such filing shall be in paper form if the minutes are maintained in paper form or shall be in electronic form if the minutes are maintained in electronic form.

Section 3.10 Remote Meeting. Unless otherwise restricted by the Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation, members of the Board, or any committee designated by the Board, may participate in a meeting by means of conference telephone or other communications equipment in which all persons participating in the meeting can hear each other. Participation in a meeting by means of conference telephone or other communications equipment shall constitute presence in person at such meeting.

Section 3.11 Compensation. The Board shall have the authority to fix the compensation, including fees and reimbursement of expenses, of directors for services to the Company in any capacity.

Section 3.12 Reliance on Books and Records. A member of the Board, or a member of any committee designated by the Board shall, in the performance of such person’s duties, be fully protected in relying in good faith upon records of the Company and upon such information, opinions, reports or statements presented to the Company by any of the Company’s officers or employees, or committees of the Board, or by any other person as to matters the member reasonably believes are within such other person’s professional or expert competence and who has been selected with reasonable care by or on behalf of the Company or the Board.

ARTICLE IV

Officers

Section 4.01 Number. The officers of the Company shall include a CEO and a Secretary, each of whom shall be elected by the Board and who shall hold office for such terms as shall be determined by the Board and until their successors are elected and qualify or until their earlier resignation or removal. In addition, the Board may elect a President, one or more Vice Presidents, including one or more Executive Vice Presidents, Senior Vice Presidents, a Treasurer and one or more Assistant Treasurers and one or more Assistant Secretaries, who shall hold their office for such terms and shall exercise such powers and perform such duties as shall be determined from time to time by the Board. Any number of offices may be held by the same person.

Section 4.02 Other Officers and Agents. The Board may appoint such other officers and agents as it deems advisable, who shall hold their office for such terms and shall exercise and perform such powers and duties as shall be determined from time to time by the Board. The Board may appoint one or more officers called a Vice Chairman, each of whom does not need to be a member of the Board.

 

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Section 4.03 Chief Executive Officer. The CEO, who may also be the President, subject to the determination of the Board, shall have general executive charge, management, and control of the properties and operations of the Company in the ordinary course of its business, with all such powers with respect to such properties and operations as may be reasonably incident to such responsibilities.

Section 4.04 President. The President of the Company, if any is appointed with respect to the operations of the entire Company and not any specific division, department, geographic or product area, shall, subject to the powers of the Board, the Chairman of the Board and the CEO, (i) have general charge of the business, affairs and property of the Company, and control over its officers, agents and employees; (ii) see that all orders and resolutions of the Board are carried into effect; (iii) be authorized to execute bonds, mortgages and other contracts requiring a seal, under the seal of the Company, except where required or permitted by law to be otherwise signed and executed and except where the signing and execution thereof shall be expressly delegated by the Board to some other officer or agent of the Company; and (iv) have such other powers and perform such other duties as may be prescribed by the Chairman of the Board, the CEO, the Board or as may be provided in these Bylaws. Unless otherwise determined by the Board, the CEO shall perform the functions of the President of the Company.

Section 4.05 Vice Presidents. Each Vice President, if any are appointed, of whom one or more may be designated an Executive Vice President or Senior Vice President, shall have such powers and shall perform such duties as shall be assigned to him or her by the CEO or the Board.

Section 4.06 Treasurer. The Treasurer shall have custody of the corporate funds, securities, evidences of indebtedness and other valuables of the Company and shall keep full and accurate accounts of receipts and disbursements in books belonging to the Company. The Treasurer shall deposit all moneys and other valuables in the name and to the credit of the Company in such depositories as may be designated by the Board or its designees selected for such purposes. The Treasurer shall disburse the funds of the Company, taking proper vouchers therefor. The Treasurer shall render to the CEO and the Board, upon their request, a report of the financial condition of the Company. If required by the Board, the Treasurer shall give the Company a bond for the faithful discharge of his or her duties in such amount and with such surety as the Board shall prescribe.

In addition, the Treasurer shall have such further powers and perform such other duties incident to the office of Treasurer as from time to time are assigned to him or her by the CEO or the Board.

Section 4.07 Secretary. The Secretary shall: (a) cause minutes of all meetings of the stockholders of the Company and directors to be recorded and kept properly; (b) cause all notices required by these Bylaws or otherwise to be given properly; (c) see that the minute books, stock books and other nonfinancial books, records and papers of the Company are kept properly; and (d) cause all reports, statements, returns, certificates and other documents to be prepared and filed when and as required. The Secretary shall have such further powers and perform such other duties as prescribed from time to time by the CEO or the Board.

 

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Section 4.08 Assistant Treasurers and Assistant Secretaries. Each Assistant Treasurer and each Assistant Secretary, if any are appointed, shall be vested with all the powers and shall perform all the duties of the Treasurer and Secretary, respectively, in the absence or disability of such officer, unless or until the CEO or the Board shall otherwise determine. In addition, Assistant Treasurers and Assistant Secretaries shall have such powers and shall perform such duties as shall be assigned to them by the CEO or the Board.

Section 4.09 Corporate Funds and Checks. The funds of the Company shall be kept in such depositories as shall from time to time be prescribed by the Board or its designees selected for such purposes. All checks or other orders for the payment of money shall be signed by the CEO, the President, a Vice President, the Treasurer or the Secretary or such other person or agent as may from time to time be authorized and with such countersignature, if any, as may be required by the Board.

Section 4.10 Contracts and Other Documents. The CEO, the President, the Treasurer, the Secretary, the executive officers of the Company, or such other officer or officers as may from time to time be authorized by the Board or any other committee given specific authority in the premises by the Board during the intervals between the meetings of the Board, shall have power to sign and execute on behalf of the Company deeds, conveyances and contracts and any and all other documents requiring execution by the Company.

Section 4.11 Ownership of Stock of Another Corporation. Unless otherwise directed by the Board, the CEO, the President, the Treasurer, the Secretary or the executive officers of the Company or such other officer or agent as shall be authorized by the Board, shall have the power and authority, on behalf of the Company, to attend and to vote at any meeting of securityholders of any entity in which the Company holds securities or equity interests and may exercise, on behalf of the Company, any and all of the rights and powers incident to the ownership of such securities or equity interests at any such meeting, including the authority to execute and deliver proxies and consents on behalf of the Company.

Section 4.12 Delegation of Duties. In the absence, disability or refusal of any officer to exercise and perform his or her duties, the Board may delegate to another officer such powers or duties.

Section 4.13 Resignation and Removal. Any officer of the Company may be removed from office for or without cause at any time by the Board. Any officer may resign at any time in the same manner prescribed under Section 3.03 hereof.

Section 4.14 Vacancies. The Board shall have the power to fill vacancies occurring in any office.

Section 4.15 Compensation. Compensation of all executive officers shall be approved by the Board or any authorized committee thereof, and no officer shall be prevented from receiving such compensation by virtue of his or her also being a director of the Company; provided, however, that compensation of all executive officers may be determined by a committee established for that purpose if so authorized by the unanimous vote of the Board.

 

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ARTICLE V

Stock

Section 5.01 Shares With Certificates. The shares of stock of the Company shall be represented by certificates; provided, however, that the Board may provide by resolution or resolutions that some or all of any or all classes or series of the Company’s stock shall be uncertificated shares. Any such resolution shall not apply to shares represented by a certificate until such certificate is surrendered to the Company. Every holder of stock in the Company represented by certificates shall be entitled to have a certificate signed by, or in the name of the Company by, (a) the Chairman of the Board or the Vice Chairman of the Board or, the President or a Vice President and (b) the Treasurer or an Assistant Treasurer or the Secretary or an Assistant Secretary, certifying the number and class of shares of the Company owned by such holder. Any or all of the signatures on the certificate may be a facsimile. The Board shall have the power to appoint one or more transfer agents and/or registrars for the transfer or registration of certificates of stock of any class, and may require stock certificates to be countersigned or registered by one or more of such transfer agents and/or registrars.

Section 5.02 Shares Without Certificates. If the Board chooses to issue shares of stock without certificates, the Company, if required by the DGCL, shall, within a reasonable time after the issuance or transfer of shares without certificates, send the stockholder of the Company a written statement of the information required by the DGCL. The Company may adopt a system of issuance, recordation and transfer of its shares of stock by electronic or other means not involving the issuance of certificates; provided, however, that the use of such system by the Company is permitted by applicable law.

Section 5.03 Transfer of Shares. Shares of stock of the Company shall be transferable upon its books by the holders thereof, in person or by their duly authorized attorneys or legal representatives, in the manner prescribed by law, the Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation and in these Bylaws, upon surrender to the Company by delivery thereof (to the extent evidenced by a physical stock certificate) to the person in charge of the stock and transfer books and ledgers. Certificates representing such shares, if any, shall be cancelled and new certificates, if the shares are to be certificated, shall thereupon be issued. Shares of the Company that are not represented by a certificate shall be transferred in accordance with applicable law. A record shall be made of each transfer. Whenever any transfer of shares shall be made for collateral security, and not absolutely, it shall be so expressed in the entry of the transfer if, when the certificates are presented, both the transferor and transferee request the Company to do so. The Board shall have power and authority to make such rules and regulations as it may deem necessary or proper concerning the issuance, transfer and registration of certificates for shares of stock of the Company.

Section 5.04 Lost, Stolen, Destroyed or Mutilated Certificates. A new certificate of stock or uncertificated shares may be issued in the place of any certificate previously issued by the Company alleged to have been lost, stolen or destroyed, and the Company may, in its discretion, require the owner of such lost, stolen or destroyed certificate, or his or her legal representative, to give the Company a bond, in such sum as the Company may direct, in order to indemnify the Company against any claims that may be made against it in connection therewith.

 

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A new certificate or uncertificated shares of stock may be issued in the place of any certificate previously issued by the Company that has become mutilated upon the surrender by such owner of such mutilated certificate and, if required by the Company, the posting of a bond by such owner in an amount sufficient to indemnify the Company against any claim that may be made against it in connection therewith.

Section 5.05 List of Stockholders Entitled To Vote. The Company shall prepare and make, at least 10 days before every meeting of stockholders of the Company, a complete list of the stockholders of the Company entitled to vote at the meeting (provided, however, that if the record date for determining the stockholders of the Company entitled to vote is less than 10 days before the date of the meeting, the list shall reflect the stockholders of the Company entitled to vote as of the 10th day before the meeting date), arranged in alphabetical order and showing the address of each stockholder of the Company and the number of shares registered in the name of each such stockholder. Such list shall be open to the examination of any stockholder of the Company, for any purpose germane to the meeting at least 10 days prior to the meeting (a) on a reasonably accessible electronic network (provided, however, that the information required to gain access to such list is provided with the notice of meeting) or (b) during ordinary business hours at the principal place of business of the Company. In the event that the Company determines to make the list available on an electronic network, the Company may take reasonable steps to ensure that such information is available only to stockholders of the Company. If the meeting is to be held at a place, then a list of stockholders of the Company entitled to vote at the meeting shall be produced and kept at the time and place of the meeting during the whole time thereof and may be examined by any stockholder of the Company who is present. If the meeting is to be held solely by means of remote communication, then the list shall also be open to the examination of any stockholder of the Company during the whole time of the meeting on a reasonably accessible electronic network and the information required to access such list shall be provided with the notice of the meeting. Except as otherwise provided by law, the stock ledger shall be the only evidence as to who are the stockholders of the Company entitled to examine the list of stockholders of the Company required by this Section 5.05 or to vote in person or by proxy at any meeting of stockholders of the Company.

Section 5.06 Fixing Date for Determination of Stockholders of Record.

(a) In order that the Company may determine the stockholders of the Company entitled to notice of any meeting of stockholders of the Company or any adjournment thereof, the Board may fix a record date, which record date shall not precede the date upon which the resolution fixing the record date is adopted by the Board, and which record date shall, unless otherwise required by law, not be more than 60 nor less than 10 days before the date of such meeting. If the Board so fixes a date, such date shall also be the record date for determining the stockholders of the Company entitled to vote at such meeting unless the Board determines, at the time it fixes such record date, that a later date on or before the date of the meeting shall be the date for making such determination. If no record date is fixed by the Board, the record date for determining stockholders of the Company entitled to notice of or to vote at a meeting of stockholders of the Company shall be at the Close of Business on the day next preceding the day on which notice is given, or, if notice is waived, at the Close of Business on the day next preceding the day on which the meeting is held.

 

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A determination of stockholders of record entitled to notice of or to vote at a meeting of stockholders of the Company shall apply to any adjournment of the meeting; provided, however, that the Board may fix a new record date for determination of stockholders of the Company entitled to vote at the adjourned meeting and in such case shall also fix as the record date for stockholders of the Company entitled to notice of such adjourned meeting the same or an earlier date as that fixed for determination of stockholders of the Company entitled to vote in accordance herewith at the adjourned meeting.

(b) In order that the Company may determine the stockholders of the Company entitled to receive payment of any dividend or other distribution or allotment of any rights, or entitled to exercise any rights in respect of any change, conversion or exchange of stock or for the purpose of any other lawful action, the Board may fix a record date, which record date shall not precede the date upon which the resolution fixing the record date is adopted, and which record date shall not be more than 60 days prior to such action. If no such record date is fixed, the record date for determining stockholders of the Company for any such purpose shall be at the Close of Business on the day on which the Board adopts the resolution relating thereto.

Section 5.07 Registered Stockholders. Prior to the surrender to the Company of the certificate or certificates for a share or shares of stock or notification to the Company of the transfer of uncertificated shares with a request to record the transfer of such share or shares, the Company may treat the registered owner of such share or shares as the person entitled to receive dividends, to vote, to receive notifications and otherwise to exercise all the rights and powers of an owner of such share or shares. To the fullest extent permitted by law, the Company shall not be bound to recognize any equitable or other claim to or interest in such share or shares on the part of any other person, whether or not it shall have express or other notice thereof.

ARTICLE VI

Notice and Waiver of Notice

Section 6.01 Notice. If mailed, notice to stockholders of the Company shall be deemed given when deposited in the United States mail, postage prepaid, directed to the stockholder of the Company at such stockholder’s address as it appears on the records of the Company. Without limiting the manner by which notice otherwise may be given effectively to stockholders of the Company, any notice to stockholders of the Company may be given by electronic transmission in the manner provided in Section 232 of the DGCL. Notice shall be deemed to have been given to all stockholders of record who share an address if notice is given in accordance with the “householding” rules set forth in Rule 14a-3(e) under the Exchange Act and Section 233 of the DGCL.

Section 6.02 Waiver of Notice. A written waiver of any notice, signed by a stockholder of the Company or director, or waiver by electronic transmission by such person, whether given before or after the time of the event for which notice is to be given, shall be deemed equivalent to the notice required to be given to such person. Neither the business nor the purpose of any meeting need be specified in such a waiver. Attendance at any meeting (in person or by remote communication) shall constitute waiver of notice except attendance for the express purpose of objecting at the beginning of the meeting to the transaction of any business because the meeting is not lawfully called or convened.

 

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ARTICLE VII

Indemnification

Section 7.01 Right to Indemnification. Each person who was or is made a party or is threatened to be made a party to or is otherwise involved, as a witness or otherwise, in any action, suit or proceeding, whether civil, criminal, administrative or investigative (each a “proceeding”), by reason of the fact that he or she is or was a director or an officer of the Company or, while a director or officer of the Company, is or was serving at the request of the Company as a director, officer, employee, agent or trustee of another corporation or of a partnership, joint venture, trust or other enterprise, including service with respect to an employee benefit plan (an “indemnitee”), whether the basis of such proceeding is alleged action in an official capacity as a director, officer, employee, agent or trustee or in any other capacity while serving as a director, officer, employee, agent or trustee, shall be indemnified and held harmless by the Company to the fullest extent permitted by Delaware law, as the same exists or may hereafter be amended (but, in the case of any such amendment, if permitted, only to the extent that such amendment permits the Company to provide broader indemnification rights than such law permitted the Company to provide prior to such amendment), against all expense, liability and loss (including attorneys’ fees, judgments, fines, ERISA excise taxes or penalties and amounts paid in settlement) reasonably incurred or suffered by such indemnitee in connection therewith; provided, however, that, except as provided in Section 7.03 hereof with respect to proceedings to enforce rights to indemnification or advancement of expenses or with respect to any compulsory counterclaim brought by such indemnitee, the Company shall indemnify any such indemnitee in connection with a proceeding (or part thereof) initiated by such indemnitee only if such proceeding (or part thereof) was authorized by the Board.

Section 7.02 Right to Advancement of Expenses. In addition to the right to indemnification conferred in Section 7.01 hereof, an indemnitee shall also have the right to be paid by the Company the expenses (including attorneys’ fees) incurred in appearing at, participating in or defending any such proceeding in advance of its final disposition or in connection with a proceeding brought to establish or enforce a right to indemnification or advancement of expenses under this Article VII (which shall be governed by Section 7.03 hereof) (hereinafter an “advancement of expenses”); provided, however, that, if the DGCL requires or in the case of an advance made in a proceeding brought to establish or enforce a right to indemnification or advancement, an advancement of expenses incurred by an indemnitee in his or her capacity as a director or officer (and not in any other capacity in which service was or is rendered by such indemnitee, including service to an employee benefit plan) shall be made solely upon delivery to the Company of an undertaking (an “undertaking”), by or on behalf of such indemnitee, to repay all amounts so advanced if it shall ultimately be determined by final judicial decision from which there is no further right to appeal (a “final adjudication”) that such indemnitee is not entitled to be indemnified or entitled to advancement of expenses under Sections 7.01 and 7.02 hereof or otherwise.

 

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Section 7.03 Right of Indemnitee to Bring Suit. If a claim under Sections 7.01 or 7.02 hereof is not paid in full by the Company within (a) 60 days after a written claim for indemnification has been received by the Company or (b) 20 days after a claim for an advancement of expenses has been received by the Company, the indemnitee may at any time thereafter bring suit against the Company to recover the unpaid amount of the claim or to obtain advancement of expenses, as applicable. To the fullest extent permitted by law, if successful in whole or in part in any such suit, or in a suit brought by the Company to recover an advancement of expenses pursuant to the terms of an undertaking or otherwise, the indemnitee shall be entitled to be paid also the expense (including attorneys’ fees) of prosecuting or defending such suit. In (a) any suit brought by the indemnitee to enforce a right to indemnification hereunder (but not in a suit brought by the indemnitee to enforce a right to an advancement of expenses) it shall be a defense that the indemnitee has not met any applicable standard for indemnification set forth in the DGCL and (b) any suit brought by the Company to recover an advancement of expenses pursuant to the terms of an undertaking or otherwise, the Company shall be entitled to recover such expenses upon a final adjudication that the indemnitee has not met any applicable standard for indemnification set forth in the DGCL. Neither the failure of the Company (including its directors who are not parties to such action, a committee of such directors, independent legal counsel, or its stockholders) to have made a determination prior to the commencement of such suit that indemnification of the indemnitee is proper in the circumstances because the indemnitee has met the applicable standard of conduct set forth in the DGCL, nor an actual determination by the Company (including its directors who are not parties to such action, a committee of such directors, independent legal counsel, or its stockholders) that the indemnitee has not met such applicable standard of conduct, shall create a presumption that the indemnitee has not met the applicable standard of conduct or, in the case of such a suit brought by the indemnitee, be a defense to such suit. In any suit brought by the indemnitee to enforce a right to indemnification or to an advancement of expenses hereunder, or brought by the Company to recover an advancement of expenses pursuant to the terms of an undertaking or otherwise, the burden of proving that the indemnitee is not entitled to be indemnified, or to such advancement of expenses, under this Article VII or otherwise shall be on the Company.

Section 7.04 Indemnification Not Exclusive.

(a) The provision of indemnification to or the advancement of expenses and costs to any indemnitee under this Article VII, or the entitlement of any indemnitee to indemnification or advancement of expenses and costs under this Article VII, shall not limit or restrict in any way the power of the Company to indemnify or advance expenses and costs to such indemnitee in any other way permitted by law or be deemed exclusive of, or invalidate, any right to which any indemnitee seeking indemnification or advancement of expenses and costs may be entitled under any law, agreement, vote of stockholders of the Company or disinterested directors or otherwise, both as to action in such indemnitee’s capacity as an officer, director, employee or agent of the Company and as to action in any other capacity.

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extent legally permitted and as required by the terms of the Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation or these Bylaws (or any other agreement between the Company and such persons) in connection with any such jointly indemnifiable claims, pursuant to and in accordance with the terms of this Article VII, irrespective of any right of recovery the indemnitee may have from the indemnitee-related entities. Any obligation on the part of any indemnitee-related entities to indemnify or advance expenses to any indemnitee shall be secondary to the Company’s obligation and shall be reduced by any amount that the indemnitee may collect as indemnification or advancement from the Company. The Company irrevocably waives, relinquishes and releases the indemnitee-related entities from any and all claims against the indemnitee-related entities for contribution, subrogation or any other recovery of any kind in respect thereof. Under no circumstance shall the Company be entitled to any right of subrogation or contribution by the indemnitee-related entities and no right of advancement or recovery the indemnitee may have from the indemnitee-related entities shall reduce or otherwise alter the rights of the indemnitee or the obligations of the Company hereunder. In the event that any of the indemnitee-related entities shall make any payment to the indemnitee in respect of indemnification or advancement of expenses with respect to any jointly indemnifiable claim, the indemnitee-related entity making such payment shall be subrogated to the extent of such payment to all of the rights of recovery of the indemnitee against the Company and the indemnitee shall execute all papers reasonably required and shall do all things that may be reasonably necessary to secure such rights, including the execution of such documents as may be necessary to enable the indemnitee-related entities effectively to bring suit to enforce such rights. Each of the indemnitee-related entities shall be third-party beneficiaries with respect to this Section 7.04(b), entitled to enforce this Section 7.04(b).

For purposes of this Section 7.04(b), the following terms shall have the following meanings:

(i) The term “indemnitee-related entities” means any corporation, limited liability company, partnership, joint venture, trust, employee benefit plan or other enterprise (other than the Company or any other corporation, limited liability company, partnership, joint venture, trust, employee benefit plan or other enterprise for which the indemnitee has agreed, on behalf of the Company or at the Company’s request, to serve as a director, officer, employee or agent and which service is covered by the indemnity described herein) from whom an indemnitee may be entitled to indemnification or advancement of expenses with respect to which, in whole or in part, the Company may also have an indemnification or advancement obligation.

(ii) The term “jointly indemnifiable claims” shall be broadly construed and shall include, without limitation, any action, suit or proceeding for which the indemnitee shall be entitled to indemnification or advancement of expenses from both the indemnitee-related entities and the Company pursuant to Delaware law, any agreement or certificate of incorporation, bylaws, partnership agreement, operating agreement, certificate of formation, certificate of limited partnership or comparable organizational documents of the Company or the indemnitee-related entities, as applicable.

 

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Section 7.05 Corporate Obligations; Reliance. The rights granted pursuant to the provisions of this Article VII shall vest at the time a person becomes a director or officer of the Company and shall be deemed to create a binding contractual obligation on the part of the Company to the persons who from time to time are elected as officers or directors of the Company and such persons in acting in their capacities as officers or directors of the Company or any subsidiary shall be entitled to rely on such provisions of this Article VII without giving notice thereof to the Company. Such rights shall continue as to an indemnitee who has ceased to be a director or officer and shall inure to the benefit of the indemnitee’s heirs, executors and administrators. Any amendment, alteration or repeal of this Article VII that adversely affects any right of an indemnitee or its successors shall be prospective only and shall not limit, eliminate, or impair any such right with respect to any proceeding involving any occurrence or alleged occurrence of any action or omission to act that took place prior to such amendment or repeal.

Section 7.06 Insurance. The Company may maintain insurance, at its expense, to protect itself and any director, officer, employee or agent of the Company or another corporation, partnership, joint venture, trust or other enterprise against any expense, liability or loss, whether or not the Company would have the power to indemnify such person against such expense, liability or loss under the DGCL.

Section 7.07 Indemnification of Employees and Agents of the Company. The Company may, to the extent authorized by the Board, grant rights to indemnification and to the advancement of expenses to any employee or agent of the Company to the fullest extent of the provisions of this Article VII with respect to the indemnification and advancement of expenses of directors and officers of the Company.

ARTICLE VIII

Miscellaneous

Section 8.01 Electronic Transmission. For purposes of these Bylaws, “electronic transmission” means any form of communication, not directly involving the physical transmission of paper, that creates a record that may be retained, retrieved and reviewed by a recipient thereof, and that may be directly reproduced in paper form by such a recipient through an automated process.

Section 8.02 Corporate Seal. The Board may provide a suitable seal, containing the name of the Company, which seal shall be in the charge of the Secretary. If and when so directed by the Board or a committee thereof, duplicates of the seal may be kept and used by the Treasurer or by an Assistant Secretary or Assistant Treasurer.

Section 8.03 Fiscal Year. The fiscal year of the Company shall end each year on December 31st of that year, or such other day as the Board may designate.

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Section 8.05 Inconsistent Provisions. In the event that any provision of these Bylaws is or becomes inconsistent with any provision of the Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation, the DGCL or any other applicable law, such provision of these Bylaws shall not be given any effect to the extent of such inconsistency but shall otherwise be given full force and effect.

Section 8.06 Severability. If any provision of these Bylaws shall be held to be invalid, illegal or unenforceable as applied to any person or entity or circumstance for any reason whatsoever, then, to the fullest extent permitted by law, the validity, legality and enforceability of such provision in any other circumstance and of the remaining provisions of these Bylaws and the application of such provision to other persons or entities or circumstances shall not in any way be affected or impaired thereby.

ARTICLE IX

Amendments

The Board is authorized to make, repeal, alter, amend and rescind, in whole or in part, these Bylaws without the assent or vote of the stockholders of the Company in any manner not inconsistent with the laws of the State of Delaware or the Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation. From and after the Trigger Event, notwithstanding any other provisions of these Bylaws or any provision of law that might otherwise permit a lesser vote of the stockholders of the Company in addition to any vote of the holders of any class or series of shares of the Company required by the Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation (including any certificate of designation relating to any series of Preferred Stock), these Bylaws or applicable law, the affirmative vote of the holders of at least 66 2/3% in voting power of all the then-outstanding shares of Common Stock entitled to vote thereon shall be required in order for the stockholders of the Company to alter, amend, repeal or rescind, in whole or in part, any provision of these Bylaws (including this Article IX) or to adopt any provision inconsistent herewith.

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Exhibit 10.1

THIS SECOND AMENDED AND RESTATED REGISTRATION RIGHTS AGREEMENT (this Agreement) is made and entered into as of September 28, 2021, by and among (i) Clearwater Analytics Holdings, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the Corporation), and (ii) the Persons set forth from time to time on the “Schedule of Holders” set forth on Annex A attached hereto (each a Holder and collectively, the Holders), including the Persons identified thereon as (A) Institutional Holders (each, a Institutional Holder and collectively, the Institutional Holders), (B) Parent Investors (each, a Parent Investor and collectively, the Parent Investors), (C) Galibier Purchaser LLC (the Permira Investor), (D) WP CA Holdco, L.P. (the Warburg Investor), and (E) Security Holders (each, a Security Holder and collectively, the Security Holders). Unless otherwise provided in this Agreement, capitalized terms shall have the meanings set forth in Section 11.

WHEREAS, in connection with the Initial Public Offering, the Holders contemplate the organization of a corporation and reorganization or recapitalization of the Company.

WHEREAS, Carbon Analytics Holdings LLC, a Delaware limited liability company ((now known as CWAN Holdings, LLC) the “Company”), formed the Corporation as the corporate successor to the Company for purposes of such Initial Public Offering.

NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the mutual covenants contained herein and other good and valuable consideration, the receipt and sufficiency of which are hereby acknowledged, the parties to this Agreement hereby agree as follows:

1. Demand Registrations.

(a) Demand. At any time after the six-month anniversary of the effective date of the registration statement for the Initial Public Offering of the Corporation’s equity securities, each of (i) the Holders of a majority of the Registrable Securities then held by the Institutional Holders (the Requisite Institutional Holders) (a “Requisite Investor Demand Right), (ii) the Parent Investors, (iii) the Permira Investor (a Permira Investor Demand Right), or (iv) the Warburg Investor (a Warburg Investor Demand Right) may request from the Corporation registration under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act) of all or any portion of their Registrable Securities, the aggregate offering price to the public of which is expected to exceed the lesser of (a) $50,000,000 and (b) the Initiating Holder’s (as defined below) remaining shares of Common Stock, on Form S-1 or any similar long-form registration (Long-Form Registrations) or, if available, on Form S-3 or any similar short-form registration (Short-Form Registrations), including pursuant to Rule 415 under the Securities Act (a Shelf Registration) and (if the Corporation is a WKSI at the time any such request is submitted to the Corporation or will become one by the time of the filing of such Shelf Registration) that such Shelf Registration be an automatic shelf registration statement (as defined in Rule 405 under the Securities Act) (an Automatic Shelf Registration Statement). All registrations requested pursuant to this Section 1(a) are referred to herein as Demand Registrations. Each such request by the Holders requesting such registration (the Initiating Holders) shall specify the approximate number of Registrable Securities requested to be registered and the anticipated per share or per unit price range for such offering, if any. Within ten (10) days after receipt of any such request, the Corporation shall give written notice of such requested registration to all other holders

 

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of Registrable Securities and, subject to Sections 1(c), 1(d), 1(f) and 1(i), shall include in such Long-Form Registration or Short-Form Registration all Registrable Securities with respect to which the Corporation has received written requests for inclusion therein within ten (10) days after the receipt of the Corporation’s notice. The Corporation shall not be obligated to effect any Long-Form Registration with respect to Registrable Securities which may be registered pursuant to a Short-Form Registration.

(b) Short-Form Registrations. After the Corporation has become subject to the reporting requirements of the Securities Exchange Act, the Corporation shall use commercially reasonable efforts to make Short-Form Registrations on Form S-3 available for the sale of Registrable Securities. If the Corporation, pursuant to the request of the Parent Investors, the Requisite Institutional Holders, Permira Investor or Warburg Investor, is qualified to and has filed with the Securities Exchange Commission a registration statement under the Securities Act on Form S-3 pursuant to Rule 415 under the Securities Act (the Required Registration”), then the Corporation shall use commercially reasonable efforts to cause the Required Registration (or a successor Required Registration) to be declared effective under the Securities Act as soon as practicable after filing, and, once effective, the Corporation shall cause such Required Registration to remain effective for a period ending on the earlier of (i) the date on which all Registrable Securities included in such registration have been sold pursuant to the Required Registration, and (ii) the date as of which the Holder(s) of the Registrable Securities included in such registration (assuming such Holder(s) are affiliates of the Corporation) are able to sell all of the Registrable Securities then-owned by such Holder(s) and its respective affiliates within a 90-day period in compliance with Rule 144 under the Securities Act.

(c) Restrictions on Registrations.

(i) The Parent Investors will be entitled to request an unlimited number of Demand Registrations and offerings in which the Corporation will pay all Registration Expenses, whether or not any such registration is consummated.

(ii) The Corporation shall not be obligated to effect, or to take any action to effect, any registration or offering pursuant to this Section 1:

(A) in connection with any Permira Investor Demand Right, after the Corporation has effected two (2) such Demand Registrations or offerings (including Shelf Offerings) in the aggregate, in each case that relates to an underwritten offering, on behalf of the Permira Investor pursuant to this Section 1 (counting for these purposes only registrations or offerings which have been declared or ordered effective and which the Company has not suspended, withdrawn or terminated, prior to the sale of at least 75% of Permira Investor’s Registrable Securities registered or offered thereunder) (it being understood that a Public Sale as a part of the Initial Public Offering shall not count against the registrations and offerings hereunder);

 

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(B) in connection with any Warburg Investor Demand Right, after the Corporation has effected two (2) such Demand Registrations or offerings (including Shelf Offerings) in the aggregate, in each case that relates to an underwritten offering, on behalf of the Warburg Investor pursuant to this Section 1 (counting for these purposes only registrations or offerings which have been declared or ordered effective and which the Company has not suspended, withdrawn or terminated, prior to the sale of at least 75% of Warburg Investor’s Registrable Securities registered or offered thereunder) (it being understood that a Public Sale as a part of the Initial Public Offering shall not count against the registrations and offerings hereunder);

(C) in connection with any Requisite Investor Demand Right, after the Corporation has effected two (2) such Demand Registrations or offerings (including Shelf Offerings) in the aggregate, in each case that relates to an underwritten offering, on behalf of the Requisite Institutional Investors pursuant to this Section 1 (counting for these purposes only registrations or offerings which have been declared or ordered effective and which the Company has not suspended, withdrawn or terminated, prior to the sale of at least 75% of the Requisite Institutional Investors’ Registrable Securities registered or offered thereunder) (it being understood that a Public Sale as a part of the Initial Public Offering shall not count against the registrations and offerings hereunder); or

(D) during the period starting with the date sixty (60) days prior to the Corporation’s good faith estimate of the date of filing of, and ending on a date that is (x) one hundred eighty (180) days after the effective date (in the case of a Long-Form Registration) or (y) ninety (90) days after the effective date (in the case of a Short-Form Registration) of, a registration, provided that the Corporation is actively employing in good faith commercially reasonable efforts to cause such registration statement to become effective.

(d) Priority on Demand Registrations. If a Demand Registration is an underwritten offering and the managing underwriters advise the Corporation in writing that, in their opinion, the number of Registrable Securities and, if permitted hereunder, other securities requested to be included in such offering exceeds the number of Registrable Securities and other securities, if any, that can be sold in an orderly manner in such offering within a price range acceptable to the Holders of a majority of the Registrable Securities to be included in such registration, then the Corporation shall include in such registration, prior to the inclusion of any securities that are not Registrable Securities, the number of Registrable Securities requested to be included that, in the opinion of such underwriters, can be sold in an orderly manner within the price range of such offering, pro rata among the respective Holders thereof on the basis of the amount of Registrable Securities owned by each such Holder.

(e) Delayed Registration. If the Corporation shall furnish to the Initiating Holders a certificate signed by the President or Chief Executive Officer of the Corporation stating that in the good faith judgment of the Board of Directors of the Corporation it would be materially detrimental to the Corporation for such registration statement to be filed in the near future and that it is therefore in the best interests of the Corporation to defer the filing of such registration statement, the Corporation shall have the right to defer such filing for the period during which such disclosure would be materially detrimental, provided that the Corporation may not defer such filing for a period of more than one hundred eighty (180) days in any twelve-month period and no more than two (2) separate black-out periods in a twelve month period.

 

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(f) Selection of Underwriters. If the Initiating Holders intend to distribute the Registrable Securities covered by their request by means of an underwriting, they shall so advise the Corporation as a part of their request made pursuant to Section 1(a) or Section 1(i) and the Corporation shall include such information in the written notice referred to in Section 1(a) or Section 1(i). The Initiating Holders holding a majority of the Registrable Securities included in any Demand Registration shall have the right to select the investment banker(s) and manager(s) to administer the offering, subject to the prior written consent of the Corporation (not to be unreasonably withheld, delayed or conditioned). In such event, the right of any Holder to include such Holder’s Registrable Securities in such registration shall be conditioned upon such Holder’s participation in such underwriting and the inclusion of such Holder’s Registrable Securities in the underwriting to the extent provided herein. All Holders proposing to distribute their securities through such underwriting shall, together with the Corporation, enter into an underwriting agreement in customary form with the underwriter or underwriters selected for such underwriting.

(g) Other Registration Rights. Except as provided in this Agreement, the Corporation shall not grant to any Persons the right to request the Corporation to register any equity securities of the Corporation, or any securities, options, or rights convertible or exchangeable into or exercisable for such equity securities, without the prior written consent of the Holders of a majority of the Registrable Securities.

(h) Obligations of Holders of Registrable Securities. Subject to the Corporation’s obligations under Section 4(e), each Holder of Registrable Securities shall cease using any prospectus after receipt of written notice from the Corporation of the happening of any event as a result of which such prospectus contains an untrue statement of a material fact or omits any fact necessary to make the statements therein not misleading in light of the circumstances under which they were made or is otherwise not legally available to support sales of Registrable Securities.

(i) Shelf Registrations.

(i) For so long as a registration statement for a Shelf Registration (a “Shelf Registration Statement”) is and remains effective, any of the Parent Investors, the Requisite Institutional Holders, the Permira Investor and/or the Warburg Investor will have the right at any time or from time to time to elect to sell pursuant to an offering (including an underwritten offering, provided that the aggregate anticipated offering price of each underwritten offering is expected to be at least $50,000,000 of (or, if less, all of such Holder(s)’ and its respective affiliates’)) Registrable Securities (“Shelf Registrable Securities”). If any of the Parent Investors, the Requisite Institutional Holders, Permira Investor and/or Warburg Investor desire to sell Registrable Securities pursuant to an underwritten offering, such holders shall deliver to the Corporation a written notice (a “Shelf Offering Notice”) specifying the number of Shelf Registrable Securities that such holders desire to sell pursuant to such underwritten offering (the “Shelf Offering”). As promptly as practicable, but in no event later than five (5) Business Days after receipt of a Shelf Offering Notice, the Corporation will give written notice of such Shelf Offering

 

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Notice to all other Holders of Shelf Registrable Securities that have been identified as selling stockholders in such Shelf Registration Statement and are otherwise permitted to sell in such Shelf Offering. The Corporation, subject to Section 1(d) and Section 7, will include in such Shelf Offering all Shelf Registrable Securities with respect to which the Corporation has received written requests for inclusion (which request will specify the maximum number of Shelf Registrable Securities intended to be disposed of by such Holder) within three (3) Business Days after the receipt of the Shelf Offering Notice. The Corporation will, as expeditiously as possible (and in any event within fourteen (14) days after the receipt of a Shelf Offering Notice), but subject to Section 1(d), use its reasonable best efforts to consummate such Shelf Offering.

(ii) Notwithstanding the foregoing, if any of the Parent Investors, the Requisite Institutional Holders, the Permira Investor and/or the Warburg Investor wish to engage in an underwritten block trade off of a Shelf Registration Statement (either through filing an automatic Shelf Registration Statement or through a take-down from an already existing Shelf Registration Statement), then, notwithstanding the foregoing time periods, such Initiating Holders only needs to notify the Corporation of the block trade Shelf Offering two (2) Business Days prior to the day such offering is to commence (unless a longer period is agreed to by the Initiating Holders wishing to engage in the underwritten block trade) and the Corporation shall promptly notify the other Institutional Holders, the Parent Investor, the Permira Investor or the Warburg Investor, as applicable (each, a “Potential Participant”) and such Potential Participants must elect whether or not to participate by the next Business Day (i.e. one (1) Business Day prior to the day such offering is to commence) (unless a longer period is agreed to by such Initiating Holders wishing to engage in the underwritten block trade) and the Corporation shall as expeditiously as possible use its reasonable best efforts to facilitate such offering (which may close as early as two (2) Business Days after the date it commences); provided, however, that such Initiating Holders shall use commercially reasonable efforts to work with the Corporation and the underwriters prior to making such request to facilitate preparation of the registration statement, prospectus and other offering documentation related to the underwritten block trade; provided, further, that, notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, on and following the later of (i) the three-year anniversary of the Initial Public Offering and (ii) the date upon which the holders of Registrable Securities and their Affiliates collectively own less than 30% of the outstanding shares of Common Stock (after giving effect to the exchange and/or conversion of any shares of Class B Common Stock, Class C Common Stock, Class D Common Stock and/or Units), without the consent of the Initiating Holder of an underwritten block trade, no notice shall be given to any other Holder of such underwritten block trade, no Holder other than the Initiating Holder shall have the right to participate in such underwritten block trade, the Holders shall not be subject to Sections 3(a) or (b) in connection with such underwritten block trade (other than the Holder(s) participating in such underwritten block trade) and the Company shall not be subject to Section 3(c) in connection with such underwritten block trade to the extent the Company’s participation in a public offering or distribution is necessary or desirable to effectuate the rights of the Holders herein.

 

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(iii) All determinations as to whether to complete any Shelf Offering and as to the timing, manner, price and other terms of any Shelf Offering contemplated by this Section 1(i) shall be determined, except as otherwise set forth in this Agreement, by the Initiating Holders, and the Corporation shall use its reasonable best efforts to cause any Shelf Offering to occur as promptly as practicable.

(j) Confidentiality. Each Holder agrees to treat as confidential the receipt of any notice under this Agreement (including any notices related to a Demand Registration, a Shelf Offering or Shelf Offering Notice, a Piggyback Registration (as defined below), or a delay (or suspension of the effectiveness) of a Demand Registration or Shelf Registration or a registration statement or other filing in connection therewith) and the information contained therein, and not to disclose or use the information contained in any such notice (or the existence thereof) without the prior written consent of the Company or Corporation, as applicable, until such time as the information contained therein is or becomes available to the public generally (other than as a result of disclosure by such Holder in breach of the terms of this Agreement); provided, that, no such written consent shall be required (and each party shall be free to release such information) for disclosures (a) to each party’s Affiliates and its and their respective representatives, agents and professional advisors, in each case so long as such Persons agree to keep such information confidential, (b) to the extent required by law, rule or regulation or (c) expressly permitted by this Agreement.

2. Piggyback Registrations.

(a) Right to Piggyback. Whenever the Corporation proposes to register any of its equity securities (including any proposed registration of the Corporation’s equity securities by any third party) under the Securities Act (other than (i) pursuant to a Demand Registration or Shelf Offering, which are addressed by Section 1, (ii) in connection with an Initial Public Offering of the Corporation’s equity securities, or (iii) in connection with registrations on Form S-4, S-8 or any successor or similar forms) and the registration form to be used may be used for the registration of Registrable Securities (each, a Piggyback Registration), the Corporation shall give prompt written notice (and in any event within three (3) Business Days after its receipt of notice of any exercise of demand registration rights other than under this Agreement) to all Holders then holding any Registrable Securities of its intention to effect such a registration and shall include in such registration all Registrable Securities with respect to which the Corporation has received written requests for inclusion therein within ten (10) days after the receipt of the Corporation’s notice. Notwithstanding anything contained herein to the contrary, if any Institutional Holder participates in an Initial Public Offering, each of the Permira Investor or Warburg Investor shall be entitled to participate in such Initial Public Offering on a pro rata basis based on the number of shares of Common Stock owned in accordance with the provisions of this Section 2.

(b) Piggyback Expenses. The Registration Expenses of the Holders of Registrable Securities shall be paid by the Corporation in all Piggyback Registrations, whether or not any such registration is consummated.

(c) Priority on Primary Registrations. If a Piggyback Registration is an underwritten primary registration on behalf of the Corporation, and the managing underwriters advise the Corporation in writing that, in their opinion, the number of securities requested to be included in such registration exceeds the number which can be sold in an orderly manner in such offering within a price range acceptable to the Corporation, then the Corporation shall include in

 

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such registration, (i) first, the securities the Corporation proposes to sell that, in the opinion of such underwriters, can be sold in an orderly manner within the price range of such offering, (ii) second, the Registrable Securities requested to be included in such registration that, in the opinion of such underwriters, can be sold in an orderly manner within the price range of such offering (if any), pro rata among the respective holders thereof on the basis of the amount of Registrable Securities owned by each such holder, and (iii) third, the Other Securities requested to be included in such registration that, in the opinion of such underwriters, can be sold in an orderly manner within the price range of such offering (if any).

(d) Priority on Secondary Registrations. If a Piggyback Registration is an underwritten secondary registration on behalf of Other Holders (it being understood that secondary registrations on behalf of Holders of Registrable Securities are addressed in Section 1 rather than this Section 2(d)), and the managing underwriters advise the Corporation in writing that, in their opinion, the number of securities requested to be included in such registration exceeds the number which can be sold in an orderly manner in such offering within a price range acceptable to the Holders of a majority of the Registrable Securities to be included in such registration, then the Corporation shall include in such registration, (i) first, the Other Securities requested to be included therein by the Other Holders requesting such registration and the Registrable Securities requested to be included in such registration, in each case that, in the opinion of such underwriters, can be sold in an orderly manner within the price range of such offering (if any), pro rata among the holders of such Other Securities and the holders of such Registrable Securities on the basis of the number of shares of Common Stock owned by each such holder, and (ii) second, the other securities requested to be included in such registration that, in the opinion of such underwriters, can be sold in an orderly manner within the price range of such offering (if any).

(e) Other Registrations. If the Corporation has previously filed a registration statement with respect to Registrable Securities pursuant to Section 1 or pursuant to this Section 2, and if such previous registration has not been withdrawn or abandoned, then, unless such previous registration is a Required Registration, the Corporation shall not file or cause to be effected any other registration of any of its equity securities or securities convertible or exchangeable into or exercisable for its equity securities under the Securities Act (except on Form S-8 or any successor form), whether on its own behalf or at the request of any holder or holders of such securities, until a period of at least one hundred eighty (180) days has elapsed from the effective date of such previous registration.

3. Lockup Agreements; Transfers; Legend; Coordination.

(a) Prohibited Actions during Holdback Period. Each Holder agrees that in connection with the Corporation’s Initial Public Offering and any Demand Registration or Piggyback Registration that is an underwritten public offering of the Corporation’s equity securities, such Holder shall not (i) offer, sell, contract to sell, pledge or otherwise dispose of (including sales pursuant to Rule 144), directly or indirectly, any equity securities of the Corporation (including equity securities of the Corporation that may be deemed to be owned beneficially by such holder in accordance with the rules and regulations of the Securities and Exchange Commission) (collectively, Securities), or any securities, options, or rights convertible into or exchangeable or exercisable for Securities (collectively, Other Equity Securities), (ii) enter into a transaction which would have the same effect as any action described

 

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in clause (i) of this Section 3(a), (iii) enter into any swap, hedge or other arrangement that transfers, in whole or in part, any of the economic consequences or ownership of any Securities or Other Equity Securities, whether such transaction is to be settled by delivery of such Securities, Other Equity Securities, in cash or otherwise, or (iv) publicly disclose the intention to enter into any transaction described in clauses (i), (ii) or (iii) of this Section 3(a), from the date on which the Corporation gives notice to the holders of Registrable Securities that a preliminary prospectus has been circulated for such underwritten public offering to the date that is 180-days following the date of the final prospectus for such underwritten Initial Public Offering and 90-days in the case of any registration other than an Initial Public Offering (or such shorter period as agreed to by the underwriters designated as “book-runners” managing such registered public offering), unless such book-runners otherwise agree in writing (each such period, referred to herein as a Holdback Period); provided, that the foregoing restriction shall not apply to any pledge or other granting of a security interest (and any related foreclosure or exercise of remedies by the lender(s) or any third party purchaser following such foreclosure or exercise of remedies) in any Securities to one or more lenders pursuant to any Permitted Financing by any Specified Investor. The Corporation may impose stop-transfer instructions with respect to its securities that are subject to the foregoing restriction until the end of such period.

(b) Lockup Agreements, etc. In connection with any underwritten public offering of the Corporation’s equity securities, each holder of Registrable Securities agrees to enter into any holdback, lockup or similar agreement requested by the underwriters managing such registered public offering that the holders of a majority of the Registrable Securities agree to enter into; provided, any such holdback, lockup or similar agreement with a Specified Investor shall provide a carve-out substantially similar to that provided in Section 3(a) above with respect to a Permitted Financing and (ii) the relevant holdback or lockup period in any such holdback, lockup or similar agreement with a Specified Investor shall not exceed the corresponding Holdback Period that applies to such offering.

(c) Limitation on Public Sales and Distributions. The Corporation (i) shall not effect any public sale or distribution of its equity securities, or any securities, options, or rights convertible into or exchangeable or exercisable for such equity securities, during the seven (7) days prior to and during the 180-day period (in the case of the Initial Public Offering) or 90-day period (in the case of any registration other than an Initial Public Offering) (or such shorter period as agreed to by the underwriters designated as “book-runners” managing such registered public offering) beginning on the effective date or pricing date of any underwritten Demand Registration, Piggyback Registration or Shelf Offering (except as part of such underwritten registration or pursuant to registrations on Form S-4 or Form S-8 or any successor form), unless the underwriters managing the registered public offering otherwise agree, and (ii) to the extent not inconsistent with applicable law, except as otherwise permitted by the holders of a majority of the Registrable Securities, shall cause each holder of its equity securities, or any securities convertible into or exchangeable or exercisable for equity securities, purchased from the Corporation at any time after the date of this Agreement (other than in a registered public offering) to agree not to effect any public sale or distribution (including sales pursuant to Rule 144) of any such securities during such period (except as part of such underwritten registration, if otherwise permitted), unless the underwriters managing the registered public offering otherwise agree.

 

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(d) Transfer of Registration Rights. The rights to cause the Corporation to register or offer Registrable Securities pursuant to this Agreement may be Transferred (but only with all related obligations) by a Holder to a Transferee or assignee of such securities in connection with a Transfer permitted under the LLC Agreement (other than with respect to a Transfer in connection with a Public Sale or an Approved Sale) and, if such Transfer is following the Initial Public Offering, such Transfer is with respect to at least ten percent (10%) of the outstanding shares of Common Stock of the Corporation; provided that, prior to Transferring any Registrable Securities to any Person (including by operation of law), the Holder effecting such Transfer shall cause the prospective Transferee to execute and deliver to the Company or the Corporation, as applicable, a counterpart of this Agreement agreeing to be bound by the terms hereof; provided, further, that the Corporation’s obligation to register or offer Registrable Securities under this Agreement by a Holder Transferring its Registrable Securities shall not be increased or expanded due to such Transfer, and the transferor and transferee will be treated collectively for purposes of determining the number of demand rights or offerings that may be exercised by such Holders.

(e) Legend. Each certificate evidencing any Securities or Other Securities held by a Holder and each certificate issued in exchange for or upon the Transfer of any such securities (unless such securities are permitted to be Transferred pursuant to this Agreement and, if such securities were Registrable Securities, would no longer be Registrable Securities after such Transfer) shall be stamped or otherwise imprinted with a legend in substantially the following form:

“THE SECURITIES REPRESENTED BY THIS CERTIFICATE ARE SUBJECT TO RESTRICTIONS ON TRANSFER AND OTHER PROVISIONS SET FORTH IN AN AMENDED AND RESTATED REGISTRATION RIGHTS AGREEMENT DATED AS OF NOVEMBER 2, 2020 AMONG THE ISSUER OF SUCH SECURITIES (THE “COMPANY”) AND CERTAIN OF THE COMPANY’S HOLDERS, AS AMENDED. A COPY OF SUCH REGISTRATION RIGHTS AGREEMENT WILL BE FURNISHED WITHOUT CHARGE BY THE COMPANY TO THE HOLDER HEREOF UPON WRITTEN REQUEST.”

The Corporation shall imprint such legend on certificates evidencing Securities and Other Securities outstanding prior to the date hereof. The legend set forth above shall be removed from the certificates evidencing any securities which are Transferred in accordance with Rule 144 of the Securities Act, provided that the Corporation may request reasonable evidence (including a legal opinion) of compliance with applicable securities laws. The Company will reasonably cooperate with and assist the Parent Investors, Permira Investor or Warburg Investor, and the Company’s transfer agent to facilitate any in-kind distribution in the manner reasonably requested by such investors (including the delivery of instruction letters by the Company or its counsel to the Company’s transfer agent, the delivery of customary legal opinions by counsel to the Company and the delivery of Registrable Securities without restrictive legends, to the extent no longer applicable).

 

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(f) Coordination. Each of the Parent Investors, the Institutional Holders, the Permira Investor and Warburg Investor agrees that any such Holder wishing to dispose of or otherwise transfer any Registrable Securities pursuant to a registered public offering within the first eighteen (18) months following the Initial Public Offering shall use commercially reasonable efforts to consult and coordinate with the Corporation prior to taking such action.

4. Registration Procedures. Whenever the holders of Registrable Securities have requested that any Registrable Securities be registered or offered pursuant to this Agreement, the Corporation shall use commercially reasonable efforts to effect the registration and the sale of such Registrable Securities in accordance with the intended method of disposition thereof, and pursuant thereto the Corporation shall as expeditiously as possible:

(a) prepare and, within sixty (60) days after the end of the period within which requests for registration may be given to the Corporation, file with the Securities and Exchange Commission a registration statement with respect to such Registrable Securities and use commercially reasonable efforts to cause such registration statement to become effective as soon as practicable thereafter, in each case in accordance with the Securities Act and all applicable rules and regulations promulgated thereunder; provided that, before filing a registration statement or prospectus or any amendments or supplements thereto, the Corporation shall furnish to the counsel selected by the holders of a majority of the Registrable Securities covered by such registration statement, copies of all such documents proposed to be filed, which documents shall be subject to the review and comment of such counsel;

(b) notify in writing each Holder that holds any Registrable Securities covered by the applicable registration (the Participating Holders) of the effectiveness of each registration statement filed hereunder and prepare and file with the Securities and Exchange Commission such amendments and supplements to such registration statement and the prospectus used in connection therewith as may be necessary to keep such registration statement effective for a period of not less than one hundred eighty (180) days or other period required herein (or, if such registration statement relates to an underwritten offering, such longer period as in the opinion of counsel for the underwriters a prospectus is required by law to be delivered in connection with sales of Registrable Securities by an underwriter or dealer) and comply with the provisions of the Securities Act with respect to the disposition of all securities covered by such registration statement during such period in accordance with the intended methods of disposition by the sellers thereof set forth in such registration statement;

(c) furnish to each Participating Holder such number of copies of such registration statement, each amendment and supplement thereto, the prospectus included in such registration statement (including each preliminary prospectus), each free-writing prospectus (as defined in Rule 405 of the Securities Act) and such other documents as such Participating Holder may reasonably request in order to facilitate the disposition of the Registrable Securities owned by such Participating Holder;

(d) use commercially reasonable efforts to register or qualify such Registrable Securities under such other securities or blue sky laws of such jurisdictions as any Participating Holders reasonably request and do any and all other acts and things which may be reasonably necessary or advisable to enable such Participating Holder to consummate the disposition in such jurisdictions of the Registrable Securities owned by the Participating Holders (provided that the Corporation shall not be required to (i) qualify generally to do business in any jurisdiction where it would not otherwise be required to qualify but for this Section 4(d), (ii) subject itself to taxation in any such jurisdiction, or (iii) consent to general service of process in any such jurisdiction);

 

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(e) promptly notify in writing each Participating Holder, at any time when a prospectus relating thereto is required to be delivered under the Securities Act, of the happening of any event as a result of which the prospectus included in such registration statement (i) contains an untrue statement of a material fact or omits any fact necessary to make the statements therein not misleading in light of the circumstances under which they were made or (ii) is otherwise not legally available to support sales of Registrable Securities, and, at the request of the holders of a majority of the Registrable Securities covered by such registration statement, the Corporation shall promptly prepare and furnish to each such Participating Holder a reasonable number of copies of a supplement or amendment to such prospectus so that, as thereafter delivered to the purchasers of such Registrable Securities, such prospectus shall not contain an untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state any fact necessary to make the statements therein not misleading in light of the circumstances under which they were made;

(f) cause all such Registrable Securities to be listed on each securities exchange on which similar securities issued by the Corporation are then listed;

(g) provide a transfer agent and registrar for all such Registrable Securities not later than the effective date of such registration statement;

(h) enter into and perform such customary agreements (including underwriting agreements in customary form) and take all such other actions as the holders of a majority of the Registrable Securities being sold or the underwriters, if any, reasonably request in order to expedite or facilitate the disposition of Registrable Securities (including, in the case of an underwritten offering in which the aggregate offering price to the public is expected to exceed $50,000,000, participation in “road shows,” investor presentations and marketing events);

(i) make available for inspection by any underwriter participating in any disposition pursuant to such registration statement, and any attorney, accountant, or other agent retained by any such underwriter, all financial and other records, pertinent corporate documents and properties of the Corporation, and cause the Corporation’s officers, directors, employees, and independent accountants to supply all information reasonably requested by any such underwriter, attorney, accountant, or agent in connection with such registration statement and assist and, at the request of any participating underwriter, use commercially reasonable efforts to cause such officers or directors to participate in presentations to prospective purchasers;

(j) otherwise use commercially reasonable efforts to comply with all applicable rules and regulations of the Securities and Exchange Commission, and make available to its security holders, as soon as reasonably practicable, an earnings statement covering the period of at least twelve months beginning with the first day of the Corporation’s first full calendar quarter after the effective date of the registration statement, which earnings statement shall satisfy the provisions of Section 11(a) of the Securities Act and Rule 158 thereunder;

 

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(k) in the event of the issuance of any stop order suspending the effectiveness of a registration statement, or of any order suspending or preventing the use of any related prospectus or suspending the qualification of any equity securities included in such registration statement for sale in any jurisdiction, the Corporation shall use commercially reasonable efforts promptly to obtain the withdrawal of such order;

(l) use commercially reasonable efforts to cause such Registrable Securities covered by such registration statement to be registered with or approved by such other governmental agencies or authorities as may be necessary to enable the Participating Holders thereof to consummate the disposition of such Registrable Securities;

(m) take all reasonable actions to ensure that any free-writing prospectus utilized in connection with any Demand Registration or Piggyback Registration hereunder complies in all material respects with the Securities Act, is filed in accordance with the Securities Act to the extent required thereby, is retained in accordance with the Securities Act to the extent required thereby and, when taken together with the related prospectus, will not contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact necessary to make the statements therein, in light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading;

(n) obtain one or more “cold comfort” letters, dated the effective date of such registration statement (and, if such registration includes an underwritten public offering, dated the date of the closing under the underwriting agreement and addressed to the underwriters), from the Corporation’s independent public accountants in customary form and covering such matters of the type customarily covered by such letters as the holders of a majority of the Registrable Securities being sold in such registered offering reasonably request; and

(o) provide a legal opinion of the Corporation’s outside counsel, dated the effective date of such registration statement (or, if such registration includes an underwritten public offering, dated the date of the closing under the underwriting agreement and addressed to the underwriters), with respect to the registration statement, each amendment and supplement thereto, the prospectus included therein (including the preliminary prospectus) and such other documents relating thereto in customary form and covering such matters of the type customarily covered by legal opinions of such nature.

(p) with a view to making available the benefits of certain rules and regulations of the Securities Exchange Commission which may permit the sale of restricted securities to the public without registration, the Company agrees to:

(i) use its reasonable best efforts to make and keep public information available as those terms are understood and defined in Rule 144, at all times from and after ninety (90) days following the effective date of the registration statement with respect to an initial public offering;

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(iii) so long as the Holders own any Registrable Securities, furnish to the Holders upon request, a written statement by the Company as to its compliance with the reporting requirements of Rule 144 (at any time from and after ninety (90) days following the effective date of the registration statement with respect to an initial public offering) and of the Securities Act and the Exchange Act (at any time after it has become subject to such reporting requirements).

If requested by any Specified Investor, the Company will use commercially reasonable efforts to provide the following cooperation in connection with such Specified Investor obtaining or maintaining Permitted Financing:

(A) entering into an (or modifying, amending or restating any existing) issuer agreement (an “Issuer Agreement”) with each lender to such Permitted Financing in customary form;

(iv) when eligible to do so under applicable securities laws and the procedures and policies of the Company’s transfer agent and (if applicable) The Depository Trust Company, (A) remove any restrictive legends on certificates representing pledged Collateral and depositing such pledged Collateral in book-entry form on the books of The Depository Trust Company or (B) without limiting the generality of clause (A), if such Collateral is eligible for resale under Rule 144A, depositing such pledged Collateral in book entry form on the books of The Depository Trust Company or other depository with customary Rule 144A restrictive legends in lieu of the legends specified in this Agreement and the LLC Agreement (provided, that, in each case, any limitations on transfer set forth in this Agreement and the LLC Agreement shall continue to apply in accordance with their respective terms);

(v) if so requested by such Specified Investor, (A) issuing physical certificates with respect to such Collateral and/or (B) re-registering the pledged Collateral in the name of the relevant lender, custodian or similar party to a Permitted Financing, with respect to Permitted Financings solely as securities intermediary and only to the extent such Specified Investor or its Affiliates or designees continues to beneficially own such pledged Collateral;

(vi) if so requested by such Specified Investor, using commercially reasonable efforts to include exceptions to any underwriters’ lock-ups to allow for the incurrence and/or maintenance of a Permitted Financing and any exercise of remedies by lenders thereunder; and

(vii) such other cooperation and assistance as such Specified Investor may reasonably request (which cooperation and assistance, for the avoidance of doubt, shall not include any requirements that the Company deliver information, compliance certificates or any other materials typically provided by borrowers to lenders) that will not unreasonably disrupt the operation of the Company’s business.

 

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5. Registration Expenses.

(a) Registration Expenses Generally. All expenses incident to the Corporation’s performance of or compliance with this Agreement, including all registration and filing fees, fees and expenses of compliance with securities or blue sky laws, printing expenses, travel expenses, filing expenses, messenger and delivery expenses, fees and disbursements of custodians, fees and disbursements of counsel for the Corporation, fees and disbursements of counsel for the Holders to the extent set forth in Section 5(b), and fees and disbursements of all independent certified public accountants (in each case, excluding Selling Expenses), and other Persons retained by the Corporation (all such expenses being herein called Registration Expenses”), shall be paid by the Corporation, and the Corporation shall, in any event, pay its internal expenses (including all salaries and expenses of its officers and employees performing legal or accounting duties), the expense of any annual audit or quarterly review, the expense of any liability insurance, and the expenses and fees for listing the securities to be registered on each securities exchange on which similar securities issued by the Corporation are then listed. All Selling Expenses relating to securities so registered shall be borne by the Holders of such securities pro rata on the basis of the number of securities so registered on their behalf.

(b) Reimbursement of Fees of Counsel. In connection with each Demand Registration, each Piggyback Registration and each Shelf Offering, the Corporation shall reimburse the holders of Registrable Securities included in such registration or offering for the reasonable fees and disbursements of one counsel chosen by the holders of a majority of the Registrable Securities included in such registration or offering; provided, that if the Parent Investors, the Permira Investor or the Warburg Investor is selling Registrable Securities in such registration or offering and such holders desire separate counsel from the counsel chosen by the holders of a majority of the Registrable Securities included in such registration or offering, the Corporation shall reimburse the Parent Investors, the Permira Investor or the Warburg Investor, as applicable, for its reasonable fees and disbursements of one counsel for the Parent Investors and one counsel for both of the Permira Investor and the Warburg Investor (to be selected jointly by the Permira Investor and the Warburg Investor if selling in the same registration or offering and with such fees and disbursements not to exceed $50,000 in the aggregate for both of the Permira Investor or the Warburg Investor taken together).

6. Indemnification.

(a) Indemnification of Holders and Underwriters. The Corporation agrees to indemnify and hold harmless, to the fullest extent permitted by law, each Holder, its officers, directors, advisors, agents, and employees, and each Person who controls such Holder (within the meaning of the Securities Act) against all losses, claims, damages, liabilities, and expenses (or actions or proceedings, whether commenced or threatened, in respect thereof), whether joint and several or several, together with reasonable costs and expenses (including reasonable attorney’s fees) to which any such indemnified party may become subject under the Securities Act or otherwise (collectively, Losses) caused by, resulting from, arising out of, based upon, or relating to (i) any untrue or alleged untrue statement of material fact contained in (A) any registration statement, prospectus or preliminary prospectus, or any amendment thereof or supplement thereto or (B) any application or other document or communication (in this Section 6, each, an application) executed by or on behalf of the Corporation or based upon written information furnished by or on behalf of the Corporation filed in any jurisdiction in order to qualify any securities covered by such registration under the “blue sky” or securities laws thereof, (ii) any omission or alleged omission of a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading or (iii) any violation by the Corporation of any rule or regulation promulgated pursuant to any federal, state or common law rule or regulation including

 

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the Securities Act, applicable to the Corporation and relating to action or inaction required of the Corporation in connection with any such registration hereunder, and the Corporation will reimburse such Holder and each such director, officer, and controlling Person for any legal or any other expenses incurred by them in connection with investigating or defending any such Losses; provided, that the Corporation shall not be liable (as determined by a final judgment, order or decree of an arbitrator or a court of competent jurisdiction (which is not appealable or with respect to which the time for appeal therefrom has expired and no appeal has been perfected)) in any such case to the extent that any such Losses result from, arise out of, are based upon, or relate to an untrue statement or alleged untrue statement, or omission or alleged omission, made in such registration statement, any such prospectus, or preliminary prospectus or any amendment thereof or supplement thereto, or in any application, in each case, made in reliance upon, and in conformity with, written information prepared and furnished in writing to the Corporation by such Holder expressly for use therein or by such Holder’s failure to deliver a copy of the registration statement or prospectus or any amendments or supplements thereto after the Corporation has furnished such Holder with a sufficient number of copies of the same. In connection with an underwritten offering, the Corporation shall indemnify such underwriters, their officers and directors, and each Person who controls such underwriters (within the meaning of the Securities Act) to the same extent as provided above with respect to the indemnification of the holders of Registrable Securities.

(b) Provision of Information; Indemnity of Holders. In connection with any registration statement in which a Holder is participating, each such Holder will furnish to the Corporation in writing such information and affidavits as the Corporation reasonably requests for use in connection with any such registration statement or prospectus and, to the fullest extent permitted by law, shall indemnify and hold harmless the other holders of Registrable Securities and the Corporation, and their respective officers, directors, agents, and employees, and each other Person who controls the Corporation (within the meaning of the Securities Act) against any Losses caused by, resulting from, arising out of, based upon, or relating to (as determined by a final judgment, order or decree of an arbitrator or a court of competent jurisdiction (which is not appealable or with respect to which the time for appeal therefrom has expired and no appeal has been perfected)) (i) any untrue or alleged untrue statement of material fact contained in the registration statement, prospectus or preliminary prospectus, or any amendment thereof or supplement thereto or in any application, or (ii) any omission or alleged omission of a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading, but in each case only to the extent that such untrue statement or omission is made in such registration statement, any such prospectus or preliminary prospectus or any amendment or supplement thereto, or in any application, in each case, in reliance upon and in conformity with written information prepared and furnished to the Corporation by such holder expressly for use therein, and such Holder will reimburse the Corporation and each such other indemnified party for any legal or any other expenses incurred by them in connection with investigating or defending any such Losses; provided that the obligation to indemnify will be individual, not joint and several, for each Holder and shall be limited to the net amount of proceeds received by such Holder from the sale of Registrable Securities pursuant to such registration statement.

 

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(c) Claims. Any Person entitled to indemnification hereunder will (i) give prompt written notice to the indemnifying party of any claim with respect to which it seeks indemnification (provided that the failure to give prompt notice shall not impair any Person’s right to indemnification hereunder to the extent such failure has not prejudiced the indemnifying party) and (ii) unless in such indemnified party’s reasonable judgment a conflict of interest between such indemnified and indemnifying parties may exist with respect to such claim, permit such indemnifying party to assume the defense of such claim with counsel reasonably satisfactory to the indemnified party. If such defense is assumed, then the indemnifying party will not be subject to any liability for any settlement made by the indemnified party without its consent (but such consent will not be unreasonably withheld). An indemnifying party who is not entitled to, or elects not to, assume the defense of a claim will not be obligated to pay the fees and expenses of more than one counsel for all parties indemnified by such indemnifying party with respect to such claim, unless in the reasonable judgment of any indemnified party a conflict of interest may exist between such indemnified party and any other of such indemnified parties with respect to such claim.

(d) Additional Indemnification Rights. The indemnification provided for under this Agreement shall be in addition to any other rights to indemnification or contribution which any indemnified party may have pursuant to law or contract, and will remain in full force and effect regardless of any investigation made or omitted by or on behalf of the indemnified party or any officer, director, or controlling Person of such indemnified party and shall survive the transfer of securities.

(e) Contribution. If the indemnification provided for in this Section 6 is unavailable to or is insufficient to hold harmless an indemnified party under the provisions above in respect to any Losses referred to therein, then each indemnifying party shall contribute to the amount paid or payable by such indemnified party as a result of such Losses (i) in such proportion as is appropriate to reflect the relative fault of the Corporation on the one hand and the Participating Holders and any other sellers participating in the registration statement on the other hand or (ii) if the allocation provided by clause (i) of this Section 6(e) is not permitted by applicable law, then in such proportion as is appropriate to reflect not only the relative fault referred to in clause (i) of this Section 6(e) but also the relative benefit of the Corporation on the one hand and of the Participating Holders and any other sellers participating in the registration statement on the other in connection with the statement or omissions which resulted in such Losses, as well as any other relevant equitable considerations. The relative benefits received by the Corporation on the one hand and the Participating Holders and any other sellers participating in the registration statement on the other shall be deemed to be in the same proportion as the total net proceeds from the offering (before deducting expenses) to the Corporation bear to the total net proceeds from the offering (before deducting expenses) to the Participating Holders and any other sellers participating in the registration statement. The relative fault of the Corporation on the one hand and of the Participating Holders and any other sellers participating in the registration statement on the other shall be determined by reference to, among other things, whether the untrue statement or alleged omission to state a material fact relates to information supplied by the Corporation or by the Participating Holders or other sellers participating in the registration statement and the parties’ relative intent, knowledge, access to information, and opportunity to correct or prevent such statement or omission.

(f) Contribution Limits. The Corporation and the Participating Holders agree that it would not be just and equitable if contribution pursuant to this Section 6 were determined by pro rata allocation (even if the Participating Holders were treated as one entity for such purpose) or by any other method of allocation which does not take account of the equitable considerations referred to in Section 6(e). The amount paid or payable by an indemnified party as a result of the

 

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Losses referred to in Section 6(e) shall be deemed to include, subject to the limitations set forth above, any legal or other expenses reasonably incurred by such indemnified party in connection with investigating or defending any such action or claim. Notwithstanding the provisions of this Section 6, no Participating Holder shall be required to contribute pursuant to this Section 6 any amount in excess of the difference of (i) any amounts paid pursuant to Section 6(b) and (ii) the net proceeds received by such Participating Holder from the sale of Registrable Securities covered by the registration statement filed pursuant hereto. No Person guilty of fraudulent misrepresentation (within the meaning of Section 11(f) of the Securities Act) shall be entitled to contribution from any Person who was not guilty of such fraudulent misrepresentation.

7. Participation in Underwritten Registrations.

(a) Cooperation with Underwriting Arrangements. No Person may participate in any underwritten registration hereunder unless such Person (i) agrees to sell such Person’s securities on the basis provided in any underwriting arrangements approved by the Person or Persons entitled hereunder to approve such arrangements (including pursuant to the terms of any over-allotment or “green shoe” option requested by the managing underwriter(s), provided that no Holder will be required to sell more than the number of Registrable Securities that such Holder has requested the Corporation to include in any registration) and (ii) completes and executes all questionnaires, powers of attorney, indemnities, underwriting agreements, and other documents reasonably required under the terms of such underwriting arrangements; provided that no Holder of Registrable Securities included in any underwritten registration shall be required to make any representations or warranties to the Corporation or the underwriters (other than representations and warranties regarding such Holder and such Holder’s intended method of distribution) or to undertake any indemnification obligations to the Corporation or the underwriters with respect thereto, except as otherwise provided in Section 6.

(b) Supplements or Amendments to Prospectus. Each Person that is participating in any registration hereunder agrees that, upon receipt of any notice from the Corporation pursuant to Section 4(e), such Person will immediately discontinue the disposition of its Registrable Securities pursuant to the registration statement until such Person’s receipt of the copies of a supplemented or amended prospectus as contemplated by Section 4(e). In the event the Corporation shall give any such notice, the applicable time period mentioned in Section 4(b) during which a Registration Statement is to remain effective shall be extended by the number of days during the period from and including the date of the giving of such notice pursuant to this Section 7(b) to and including the date when each Participating Holder shall have received the copies of the supplemented or amended prospectus contemplated by Section 4(e).

8. Additional Holders. In connection with the issuance of any additional equity securities of the Corporation, the Corporation, with the prior written consent of the Board and the Holders of a majority of the Registrable Securities, may permit such Person to become a party to this Agreement and succeed to all of the rights and obligations of a “Holder” under this Agreement by obtaining an executed counterpart signature page to this Agreement, and, upon such execution, such Person shall for all purposes be a Holder and party to this Agreement.

 

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9. Subsidiary Public Offering. Unless otherwise determined by the Parent Investors, if, after an Initial Public Offering of the equity securities of a Subsidiary of the Company, the Company distributes securities of such Subsidiary to members of the Company, then the rights and obligations of the Corporation pursuant to this Agreement shall apply, mutatis mutandis, to such Subsidiary, and the Company or the Corporation, as applicable, shall cause such Subsidiary to comply with such Subsidiary’s obligations under this Agreement.

10. Termination of Registration Rights. The right of any Holder to request registration or inclusion in any registration pursuant to Section 1 or Section 2 shall terminate upon the earlier of such date as all shares of Registrable Securities held or entitled to be held upon conversion by such Holder and its affiliates may immediately be sold under Rule 144 during any ninety (90) day period without volume limitation and with the current public information required under Rule 144(c)(1) deemed to be available and such Holder holds less than one percent (1%) of outstanding capital stock of the Company.

11. Definitions.

(a) Affiliate of any particular Person means (a) any other Person controlling, controlled by, or under common control with such particular Person, where “control” means the possession, directly or indirectly, of the power to direct the management and policies of a Person whether through the ownership of voting securities, by contract or otherwise, or (b) in addition to the foregoing, with respect to (i) the Parent Investors, (ii) the Permira Investor, (iii) the Warburg Investor or (iv) the Institutional Holders. For purposes of this Agreement, the Companyand its respective Subsidiaries shall not be considered Affiliates of any holder of interests in the Company (and vice versa).

Approved Sale means a sale of the Company approved by the Parent Investors or the Permira Investor and the Warburg Investor, as applicable; where sale of the Company means any transaction or series of transactions pursuant to which any Person or group of related Persons (other than Parent Investor Affiliates, Permira Investor Affiliates, Warburg Investor Affiliates or any portfolio company thereof) in the aggregate acquire(s) either: (i) a majority of the Common Stock (or successor Company Equity Securities thereto) then outstanding or (ii) all or substantially all of the Company’s assets determined on a consolidated basis; provided that a public offering shall not constitute a Sale of the Company.

(b) Board means the board of directors of the Company.

(c) Business Day means any day other than a Saturday or Sunday or any other day on which commercial banks in Boise, Idaho or New York, New York are authorized or required by applicable law to close.

(d) “Common Stock” shall mean the Corporation’s Class A Common Stock, par value $0.001 per share.

(e) Company Equity Securities means (i) any Common Stock, interest, partnership, membership or limited liability company interests or other equity interests in the Company or a corporate successor (including other classes, groups or series thereof having such relative rights, powers and/or obligations as may from time to time be established by the Board, including rights, powers and/or obligations different from, senior to or more favorable than existing classes, groups and series of interests, capital stock, partnership, membership or limited

 

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liability company interests or other equity interests, and including any profits interests); (ii) obligations, evidences of indebtedness or other securities or interests convertible or exchangeable into Common Stock, interests, partnership interests, membership or limited liability company interests or other equity interests in the Company or a corporate successor; and (iii) warrants, options or other rights to purchase or otherwise acquire Common Stock, interests, partnership interests, membership or limited liability company interests or other equity interests in the Company or a corporate successor.

(f) Initial Public Offering shall mean the initial public offering of the Common Stock pursuant to the Registration Statement on Form S-1 initially filed on August 30, 2021, as amended.

(g) LLC Agreement means the Third Amended and Restated Limited Liability Company Agreement of the Company, as amended or modified from time to time in accordance with its terms.

(h) Other Securities shall mean shares of Common Stock (other than Registrable Securities).

(i) Other Holders shall mean persons other than Holders who, by virtue of agreements with the Company, the Corporation or a Subsidiary of either the Company or the Corporation, are entitled to include their securities in certain registrations hereunder.

(j) Permitted Financing means the (i) incurrence of indebtedness by a Specified Investor (or an Affiliate thereof) to (A) finance a portion of its purchase of the Units, (B) finance a return of capital with respect to its investment in the Units (or the securities received in exchange or conversion of the Units), or (C) refinance or replace indebtedness described in this clause (i) and (ii) granting of liens by such Specified Investor to secure payment of such indebtedness, including on the Units and any shares of Common Stock held by such Specified Investor (the “Collateral”).

(k) Person shall have the meaning set forth in the LLC Agreement.

(l) Public Sale means any sale of Company Equity Securities (i) to the public pursuant to an offering registered under the Securities Act or (ii) to the public through a broker, dealer or market maker pursuant to the provisions of Rule 144 (or any similar provision then in effect) adopted under the Securities Act (other than Rule 144(b) prior to a public offering).

(m) Registrable Securities means (i) any Common Stock issued or distributed in respect of Units of the Company issued to the Holders, (ii) common equity securities of the Corporation or a Subsidiary of either the Company or the Corporation issued or issuable with respect to the securities referred to in clause (i) of this definition by way of dividend, distribution, split or combination of securities, or any recapitalization, merger, consolidation or other reorganization, and (iii) other Common Stock held by Persons holding securities described in clause (i) of this definition; provided, that none of the following shall constitute Registrable Securities for any purpose hereunder: (A) securities that have been distributed to the public pursuant to an offering registered under the Securities Act or sold to the public pursuant to Rule 144 under the Securities Act (or any similar rule then in force); (B) securities that are effectively

 

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registered under a registration statement on Form S-8 (or any successor form); (C) securities that, together with all other securities held by a Holders and its affiliates, are eligible to be sold to the public through a broker, dealer, or market maker pursuant to Rule 144 (or any similar provision then in force), without volume limitation and without the requirement for the Company to be in compliance with the current public information required under Rule 144(c)(1), during a single 90-day period; (D) shares of Common Stock or other common equity securities issuable upon the exercise of employee options (or similar equity-like incentive shares or units) which have not vested or are otherwise not exercisable, (E) shares of Common Stock or other common equity securities issuable upon the exercise of vested employee options (or similar equity like incentive shares or units) whose per share or per unit exercise price is more than the price to be paid for such share or unit in such offering, (F) shares of Common Stock or other common equity securities whose per share or per unit participation threshold is more than the price to be paid for such share or unit in such offering, and (G) shares of Common Stock or other common equity securities that are subject to vesting (including if subject to possible repurchase by the Company or the Corporation at less than fair market value). For purposes of this Agreement, a Person shall be deemed to be a holder of Registrable Securities whenever such Person has the right to acquire such Registrable Securities (upon conversion or exercise in connection with a transfer of securities or otherwise, but disregarding any restrictions or limitations upon the exercise of such right), whether or not such acquisition has actually been effected; provided that this sentence shall not apply to shares of the common equity securities of the Corporation issuable upon the exercise of unvested options originally issued to employees or former employees of the Company, the Corporation or their Subsidiaries.

(n) Selling Expenses shall mean all underwriting discounts and selling commissions applicable to the sale of Registrable Securities and fees and disbursements of counsel for any Holder (other than the fees and disbursements of counsel included in Registration Expenses).

(o) “Specified Investors shall mean the Parent Investor, the Permira Investor and the Warburg Investor.

(p) Subsidiary shall have the meaning set forth in the LLC Agreement.

(q) Transfer shall have the meaning set forth in the LLC Agreement.

(r) “Units” shall have the meaning set forth in the LLC Agreement.

12. Miscellaneous.

(a) Remedies. Each of the parties to this Agreement shall have all rights and remedies set forth in this Agreement and all rights and remedies which such Person has been granted at any time under any other agreement or contract and all of the rights which such Person has under any law. Each of the parties to this Agreement will be entitled to enforce its rights under this Agreement specifically, to recover damages and costs caused by any breach of any provision of this Agreement and to exercise all other rights existing in its favor. The parties hereto agree and acknowledge that money damages may not be an adequate remedy for any breach of the provisions of this Agreement and that any party may in its sole discretion apply to any court of law or equity of competent jurisdiction (without posting any bond or deposit) for specific performance and/or other injunctive relief in order to enforce or prevent any violations of the provisions of this Agreement.

 

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(b) Amendments and Waivers.

(i) Subject to Sections 12(b)(ii) and 12(b)(iii), any provision of this Agreement may be amended or modified if, but only if, such amendment or modification is in writing and is approved in writing by the Corporation and the Holders then holding a majority of the Registrable Securities.

(ii) Notwithstanding Section 12(b)(i) but subject to Section 12(b)(iii), if an amendment or modification of this Agreement:

(A) would alter or change the special rights hereunder of a holder of Registrable Securities or group of Holders of Registrable Securities specifically granted such special rights by name, such amendment or modification shall not be effective against such holder of Registrable Securities or group of Holders of Registrable Securities (as the case may be) without the prior written consent of such holder of Registrable Securities or, in the case of a group of Holders of Registrable Securities, the holders of at least a majority of Registrable Securities held by such group of Holders of Registrable Securities; or

(B) would alter or change the powers, preferences or special rights hereunder of the holders of a class of Registrable Securities (holders of any such class, the Subject Holders) so as to treat them in a way that is materially and adversely different than the holders of any other class of Registrable Securities, such amendment or modification shall not be effective against the Subject Holders without the prior written consent of the holders of at least a majority of such class of Registrable Securities held by the Subject Holders.

(iii) The provisions of Sections 12(b)(i) and 12(b)(ii) shall not apply to any amendments or modifications otherwise expressly permitted by this Agreement including any required to add a party hereto pursuant to Section 8.

(c) Successors and Assigns. All covenants and agreements contained in this Agreement shall bind and inure to the benefit of the parties hereto and their respective heirs, executors, administrators, successors, legal representatives, and permitted assigns, whether so expressed or not.

(d) Severability. Whenever possible, each provision of this Agreement will be interpreted in such manner as to be effective and valid under applicable law, but if any provision of this Agreement is held to be invalid, illegal, or unenforceable in any respect under any applicable law or rule in any jurisdiction, such invalidity, illegality, or unenforceability will not affect any other provision or the effectiveness or validity of any provision in any other jurisdiction, and this Agreement will be reformed, construed, and enforced in such jurisdiction as if such invalid, illegal, or unenforceable provision had never been contained herein.

 

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(e) Counterparts. This Agreement may be executed in multiple counterparts with the same effect as if all signing parties had signed the same document. All counterparts shall be construed together and constitute the same instrument.

(f) Waiver of Breach. No failure by any party to insist upon the strict performance of any covenant, duty, agreement, or condition of this Agreement or to exercise any right or remedy consequent upon a breach thereof shall constitute a waiver of any such breach or any other covenant, duty, agreement, or condition. The waiver by any party of a breach of any covenant, duty, agreement, or condition of this Agreement of any other party shall not operate or be construed as a waiver of any subsequent breach of that provision or any other provision hereof.

(g) Descriptive Headings; Interpretation; No Strict Construction. The descriptive headings of this Agreement are inserted for convenience only and do not constitute a substantive part of this Agreement. Whenever required by the context, any pronoun used in this Agreement shall include the corresponding masculine, feminine, or neuter forms, and the singular form of nouns, pronouns, and verbs shall include the plural and vice versa. The use of the word “including” in this Agreement shall be by way of example rather than by limitation. Reference to any agreement, document, or instrument means such agreement, document, or instrument as amended or otherwise modified from time to time in accordance with the terms thereof, and, if applicable, hereof. The use of the words “or,” “either,” and “any” shall not be exclusive. The parties hereto have participated jointly in the negotiation and drafting of this Agreement. In the event an ambiguity or question of intent or interpretation arises, this Agreement shall be construed as if drafted jointly by the parties hereto, and no presumption or burden of proof shall arise favoring or disfavoring any party by virtue of the authorship of any of the provisions of this Agreement.

(h) Applicable Law. This Agreement shall be governed by, and construed in accordance with, the laws of the State of Delaware, without giving effect to any choice of law or conflict of law rules or provisions (whether of the State of Delaware or any other jurisdiction) that would cause the application of the laws of any jurisdiction other than the State of Delaware.

(i) Jurisdiction; Venue; Service of Process. Each party hereto agrees that it may bring any action between the parties hereto arising out of or related to this Agreement in the Court of Chancery of the State of Delaware (the Court of Chancery) or, to the extent the Court of Chancery does not have subject matter jurisdiction, the United States District Court for the District of Delaware and the appellate courts having jurisdiction of appeals in such courts (the Delaware Federal Court) or, to the extent neither the Court of Chancery nor the Delaware Federal Court has subject matter jurisdiction, the Superior Court of the State of Delaware (the Chosen Courts), and, solely with respect to any such action (a) irrevocably submits to the non-exclusive jurisdiction of the Chosen Courts, (b) waives any objection to laying venue in any such action in the Chosen Courts, (c) waives any objection that the Chosen Courts are an inconvenient forum or do not have jurisdiction over any party hereto and (d) agrees that service of any process, summons, notice or document pursuant to Section 12(k) shall be effective service of process in any action, suit or proceeding in Delaware with respect to any matters to which it has submitted to jurisdiction as set forth in the immediately preceding sentence.

 

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(j) MUTUAL WAIVER OF JURY TRIAL. EACH PARTY TO THIS AGREEMENT (INCLUDING THE COMPANY) HEREBY WAIVES ALL RIGHTS TO TRIAL BY JURY IN ANY ACTION, SUIT, OR PROCEEDING BROUGHT TO RESOLVE ANY DISPUTE BETWEEN OR AMONG ANY OF THE PARTIES HERETO, WHETHER ARISING IN CONTRACT, TORT, OR OTHERWISE, ARISING OUT OF, CONNECTED WITH, RELATED OR INCIDENTAL TO THIS AGREEMENT AND/OR THE TRANSACTIONS CONTEMPLATED HEREBY AND/OR THE RELATIONSHIPS ESTABLISHED AMONG THE PARTIES HEREUNDER.

(k) Notices. All notices, demands, or other communications to be given or delivered under or by reason of the provisions of this Agreement shall be in writing and shall be deemed to have been given when (i) delivered personally to the recipient, (ii) sent to the recipient by reputable overnight express service (charges prepaid), (iii) mailed to the recipient by certified or registered mail, return receipt requested and postage prepaid or (iv) emailed to the recipient if emailed before 5:00 p.m. New York, New York time on a Business Day, and otherwise, if at or after 5:00 p.m. New York, New York time on the next Business Day. Such notices, demands, and other communications shall be sent to each Holder at the addresses indicated on the Schedule of Holders and to the Corporation at the address of its corporate headquarters or to such other address or to the attention of such other Person as the recipient party has specified by prior written notice to the sending party.

(l) No Third-Party Beneficiaries. No term or provision of this Agreement is intended to be, or shall be, for the benefit of any Person not a party hereto, and no such other Person shall have any right or cause of action hereunder.

(m) Electronic Delivery. This Agreement, the agreements referred to herein, and each other agreement or instrument entered into in connection herewith or therewith or contemplated hereby or thereby, and any amendments hereto or thereto, to the extent signed and delivered by means of a photographic, facsimile, portable document format (.pdf), or similar reproduction of such signed writing using a facsimile machine or electronic mail shall be treated in all manner and respects as an original agreement or instrument and shall be considered to have the same binding legal effect as if it were the original signed version thereof delivered in person. At the request of any party hereto or to any such agreement or instrument, each other party hereto or thereto shall re-execute original forms thereof and deliver them to all other parties hereto. No party hereto or to any such agreement or instrument shall raise the use of a facsimile machine or electronic mail to deliver a signature or the fact that any signature or agreement or instrument was transmitted or communicated through the use of a facsimile machine or electronic mail as a defense to the formation or enforceability of a contract and each such party forever waives any such defense.

(n) Opt-Out Requests. Subject to Sections 3(a), 3(b) and 4(b), each Holder shall have the right, at any time and from time to time (including after receiving information regarding any potential public offering), to elect to not receive any notice that the Company or any other Holders otherwise are required to deliver pursuant to this Agreement regarding a Demand Registration or Shelf Offering by delivering to the Company a written statement signed by such Holder that it does not want to receive any such notices hereunder (an “Opt-Out Request”); in which case, and notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Agreement, the Company and other Holders shall not be required to, and shall not, deliver any such notice or other related information required to be provided to Holders hereunder to the extent that the Company or such

 

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other Holders reasonably expect such notice or information would result in a Holder acquiring material non-public information within the meaning of Regulation FD promulgated under the Securities Exchange Act. An Opt-Out Request may state a date on which it expires or, if no such date is specified, shall remain in effect indefinitely. A Holder who previously has given the Company an Opt-Out Request may revoke such request at any time, and there shall be no limit on the ability of a Holder to issue and revoke subsequent Opt-Out Requests; provided, that each Holder shall use commercially reasonable efforts to minimize the administrative burden on the Company arising in connection with any such Opt-Out Requests.

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Annex A

SCHEDULE OF HOLDERS

Parent Investors:

WCAS XII Carbon Analytics Acquisition, L.P.

WCAS XIII Carbon Analytics Acquisition, L.P.

WCAS GP CW LLC

Welsh, Carson, Anderson & Stowe XII, L.P.

Welsh, Carson, Anderson & Stowe XII Delaware, L.P.

Welsh, Carson, Anderson & Stowe XII Delaware II, L.P.

Welsh, Carson, Anderson & Stowe XII Cayman, L.P.

WCAS XII Carbon Investors, L.P.

WCAS XIII Carbon Investors, L.P.

Institutional Holders:

Calculated DF Holdings, LP

Durable Capital Master Fund LP

DCP CA Blocker LLC

Sockeye Trading, Inc.

Carbon Management Holdings, LLC

Permira Investor:

Galibier Purchaser LLC

Warburg Investor:

WP CA Holdco, L.P.

Security Holders:

Tyler Haws

Marcus Ryu

Jacques Aigrain

Kathleen A. Corbet

Exhibit 10.2

STOCKHOLDERS AGREEMENT

THIS STOCKHOLDERS AGREEMENT (this “Agreement”) is made and entered into as of September 28, 2021, by and among Clearwater Analytics Holdings, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “Company”), WCAS XII Carbon Analytics Acquisition, L.P., WCAS XIII Carbon Analytics Acquisition, L.P., Welsh, Carson, Anderson & Stowe XII, L.P., Welsh, Carson, Anderson & Stowe XII Delaware, L.P., Welsh, Carson, Anderson & Stowe XII Delaware II, L.P., Welsh, Carson, Anderson & Stowe XII Cayman, L.P., WCAS XII Carbon Investors, L.P., WCAS XIII Carbon Investors, L.P. and WCAS GP CW LLC (collectively, “Welsh Carson”), WP CA Holdco, L.P., a Delaware limited partnership (“Warburg Pincus”), and Galibier Purchaser LLC, a Delaware limited partnership (“Permira” and, together with Welsh Carson and Warburg Pincus, the “Principal Equity Owners”).

RECITALS

WHEREAS, as of the date hereof, the Principal Equity Owners collectively hold a majority of the outstanding capital stock of the Company;

WHEREAS, in connection with, and effective upon, the date of completion of the initial public offering of the Company (the “Effective Date”), the Company and the Principal Equity Owners wish to set forth certain understandings between such parties, including with respect to certain governance matters.

NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the mutual covenants and agreements contained herein and other good and valuable consideration, the receipt and sufficiency of which are hereby acknowledged, the Company and the Principal Equity Owners agree as follows:

AGREEMENT

1. Defined Terms. In addition to the terms defined elsewhere herein, the following terms have the following meaning when used herein with initial capital letters:

Affiliate” of any Person shall mean any other Person controlled by, controlling or under common control with such first Person; where “control” (including, with its correlative meanings, “controlling,” “controlled by” and “under common control with”) means possession, directly or indirectly, of the power to direct or cause the direction of management or policies (whether through ownership of securities, by contract or otherwise).

Beneficially Own” shall mean that a specified person has or shares the right, directly or indirectly, through any contract, arrangement, understanding, relationship or otherwise, to vote shares of capital stock of the Company; provided that, for purposes of calculating the Beneficial Ownership of the Company held by any of the Principal Equity Owners under this Agreement or any other agreement among the Company and any Principal Equity Owner, no Principal Equity Owner shall be deemed to Beneficially Own any securities of the Company held by any other Principal Equity Owner solely by virtue of the provisions of this Agreement (other than this definition which shall be deemed to be read for this purpose without the proviso hereto) or such other agreement.

Board” means the board of directors of the Company.


Common Stock” shall mean, collectively, the shares of the Company’s Class A Common Stock, par value $0.001 per share; the shares of the Company’s Class B Common Stock, par value $0.001 per share; the shares of the Company’s Class C Common Stock, par value $0.001 per share; and the shares of the Company’s Class D Common Stock, par value $0.001 per share.

Director” means any member of the Board.

Governmental Entity” means the United States of America or any other nation, any state or other political subdivision thereof, or any entity exercising executive, legislative, judicial, regulatory or administrative functions of government or any agency or department or subdivision of any governmental authority, including the United States federal government or any state or local government.

Observer” means any individual appointed as an observer pursuant to Section 5.

Person” means any individual, corporation, limited liability company, partnership, trust, joint stock company, business trust, unincorporated association, joint venture, governmental authority or other entity or organization, including a government or any subdivision or agency thereof.

Permitted Transferee” means any of (i) Permira or any Affiliate of Permira, any investment fund or alternative investment vehicle, directly or indirectly, affiliated with, or managed or sponsored by, Permira or an Affiliate of Permira, (ii) Warburg Pincus or any Affiliate of Warburg Pincus, any investment fund or alternative investment vehicle, directly or indirectly, affiliated with, or managed or sponsored by, Warburg Pincus or an Affiliate of Warburg Pincus or (iii) Welsh Carson or any Affiliate of Welsh Carson, any investment fund or alternative investment vehicle, directly or indirectly, affiliated with, or managed or sponsored by, Welsh Carson or an Affiliate of Welsh Carson, in each case, provided that, prior to any transfer of Common Stock, such Person shall have executed and delivered to the Company a Joinder Agreement agreeing to be bound by the terms of this Agreement in the form of Annex A attached hereto to the extent such Person is a not already bound by the terms of this Agreement (but not any portfolio company of the foregoing).

Stock Exchange” means the national stock exchange on which the Common Stock is listed.

Subsidiary” means with respect to any Person, any corporation, limited liability company, partnership, association, trust or other form of legal entity, of which (a) such first Person directly or indirectly owns or controls at least a majority of the securities or other interests having by their terms voting power to elect a majority of the board of directors or others performing similar functions, or (b) such first Person is a general partner or managing member (excluding partnerships in which such Person or any Subsidiary thereof does not have a majority of the voting interests in such partnership).

 

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2. Board of Directors.

(a) Subject to the other provisions of this Section 2, as of the Effective Date, for so long as the Company is a “controlled company” under the listing standards of the Stock Exchange due to one or more of the Principal Equity Owners having beneficial ownership of a majority of the voting power of the Company for the election of directors, the number of Directors constituting the full Board shall be fixed at no more than ten (10) Directors, which shall be divided into three (3) classes of Directors in accordance with the terms of the Company’s Certificate of Incorporation. As of the Effective Date, the full Board will consist of nine (9) directors and shall be divided into three (3) classes as follows:

(i) the Class I Directors shall include Marcus Ryu, Kathleen A. Corbet and Jacques Aigrain;

(ii) the Class II Directors shall include Anthony J. deNicola, Christopher Hooper and Sandeep Sahai; and

(iii) the Class III Directors shall include Eric Lee, Andrew Young and Cary Davis.

(b) For the avoidance of doubt, the last sentence of Section 2(a) is applicable solely to the initial composition of the Board, except that, subject to the Company’s Certificate of Incorporation, a Director shall remain a member of the class of Directors to which he or she was assigned in accordance with Section 2(a).

(c) From the Effective Date, for so long as the Company is a “controlled company” under the listing standards of the Stock Exchange due to the Principal Equity Owners, collectively, having beneficial ownership of a majority of the voting power of the Company for the election of directors, (i) Welsh Carson shall have the right, but not the obligation, to nominate to the Board a number of designees (such persons, the “Nominees”) equal to five (5) Directors, of which one must be an “independent director,” as defined under the listing standards of the Stock Exchange and qualify as an independent director for purposes of Rule 10A-3 under the Exchange Act and the listing standards of the Stock Exchange requiring the Company to have one independent audit committee member upon the listing of the Common Stock (an “Audit Committee Independent Director”), (ii) Permira shall have the right, but not the obligation, to nominate to the Board a number of Nominees equal to one (1) Director, so long as Permira Beneficially Owns shares of Common Stock representing at least 33.3% of the shares of Common Stock that it holds immediately following the initial public offering on the Effective Date (the “Closing Shares”), (iii) Warburg Pincus shall have the right, but not the obligation, to nominate to the Board a number of Nominees equal to one (1) Director, so long as Warburg Pincus Beneficially Owns shares of Common Stock representing at least 33.3% of its Closing Shares, (iv) Permira and Warburg Pincus shall each have the right, but not the obligation, to nominate (by mutual agreement for so long as both have such right and if only one of Warburg Pincus or Permira have such right, the Person that has such right) to the Board a number of Nominees equal to one (1) Director who would qualify as an Audit Committee Independent Director, so long as such Principal Equity Owner Beneficially Owns shares of Common Stock representing at least 50% of its Closing Shares, (v) Welsh Carson, Permira and Warburg Pincus shall each have the right, but not the obligation, to nominate (by mutual agreement for so long as more than one Principal Equity Owner has such right and if only one of Welsh Carson, Warburg Pincus or Permira have such right, the Person that has such right) to the Board a number of Nominees equal to one (1) Director who would qualify as an Audit Committee Independent Director, so long as, in the case of Permira and Warburg Pincus, such Principal Equity Owner Beneficially Owns shares of Common Stock representing at least 33.3% of its Closing Shares, and (vi) the Chief Executive Officer of the Company must be nominated as a Director. The initial Nominees of Welsh Carson shall be Kathleen A. Corbet, Anthony J. deNicola, Christopher Hooper, Eric Lee and Marcus Ryu. The initial Nominee of Permira shall be Andrew Young. The initial Nominee of Warburg Pincus shall be Cary Davis. The initial Nominee of Permira and Warburg Pincus (by mutual agreement) shall be Jacques Aigrain.

 

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(d) From the Effective Date, for so long as the Company is not a “controlled company” under the listing standards of the Stock Exchange due to the Principal Equity Owners not collectively having beneficial ownership of a majority of the voting power of the Company for the election of directors, the number of Directors constituting the full Board shall be fixed at no more than eleven (11) Directors, which shall be divided into three (3) classes of Directors in accordance with the terms of the Company’s Certificate of Incorporation. Welsh Carson shall have the right, but not the obligation, to nominate to the Board a number of Nominees equal to two (2) Directors, so long as Welsh Carson Beneficially Owns shares of Common Stock representing at least 5% of the Common Stock then outstanding, (ii) Permira shall have the right, but not the obligation, to nominate to the Board a number of Nominees equal to one (1) Director, so long as Permira Beneficially Owns shares of Common Stock representing at least the greater of 33.3% of its Closing Shares and 5% of the Common Stock then outstanding, (iii) Warburg Pincus shall have the right, but not the obligation, to nominate to the Board a number of Nominees equal to one (1) Director, so long as Warburg Pincus Beneficially Owns shares of Common Stock representing at least the greater of 33.3% of its Closing Shares and 5% of the Common Stock then outstanding, and (vi) the Chief Executive Officer of the Company must be nominated as a Director.

(e) In the event that either Welsh Carson, Warburg Pincus or Permira has nominated less than the total number of designees that such Principal Equity Owner shall be entitled to nominate pursuant to Section 2(c) and Section 2(d), as applicable, such Principal Equity Owner shall have the right, at any time but subject to the waiver set forth in Section 8, to nominate such additional designees to which it is entitled, in which case, the Company shall take all necessary corporate action, to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law (including with respect to fiduciary duties under Delaware law), to (x) enable such Principal Equity Owner to nominate and effect the election or appointment of such additional individual(s) and (y) to designate such additional individual(s) nominated by such Principal Equity Owner to fill such newly created vacancies or to fill any other existing vacancies.

(f) The Company shall pay all reasonable out-of-pocket expenses incurred by any Nominee in connection with the performance of his or her duties as a Director and in connection with his or her attendance at any meeting of the Board or any committee thereof.

(g) No reduction in the number of shares of Common Stock that each Principal Equity Owner Beneficially Owns shall shorten the term of any incumbent Director.

(h) In the event that any Nominee shall cease to serve for any reason during a term, the Principal Equity Owner that nominated such Nominee shall be entitled to designate such person’s successor in accordance with this Agreement (regardless of each Principal Equity Owner’s Beneficial Ownership of Common Stock at the time of such vacancy) and the Board shall promptly fill the vacancy with such successor nominee; it being understood that any such designee shall serve the remainder of the term of the Director whom such designee replaces.

 

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(i) If a Nominee is not appointed or elected to the Board because of such person’s death, disability, disqualification, withdrawal as a Nominee or for another reason is unavailable or unable to serve on the Board, the applicable Principal Equity Owner shall be entitled to designate promptly another Nominee and the Director position for which the original Nominee was nominated shall not be filled pending such designation. Prior to the Trigger Event (as defined in the Company’s Certificate of Incorporation), a Nominee nominated by a Principal Equity Owner and serving as a director will not be removed by the other Principal Equity Owners without cause.

(j) At such times as the Company is required by applicable law or Stock Exchange rules to have a majority of the Board comprised of “independent directors” (subject in each case to any applicable phase-in periods), the Nominees shall include a number of persons that qualify as “independent directors” under applicable law and Stock Exchange rules such that, together with any other “independent directors” then serving on the Board that are not Nominees, the Board is comprised of a majority of “independent directors”; provided, that at any time that a Principal Equity Owner shall have any nomination rights under this Section 2, each such Principal Equity Owner shall be entitled to nominate at least one (1) Nominee who is a partner, officer, director, manager or employee of such Principal Equity Owner or its Affiliates.

3. Company and Principal Equity Owner Obligations.

(a) The Company agrees that, prior to the date that each Principal Equity Owner ceases to Beneficially Own shares of Common Stock that entitle such Principal Equity Owner to nominate Directors under Section 2, (i) the Company will cause each Nominee to be included in the Board’s slate of nominees to the stockholders (the “Board’s Slate”) for each election of Directors; (ii) the Company will cause each Nominee to be included in the proxy statement prepared by management of the Company in connection with soliciting proxies for every meeting of the stockholders of the Company called with respect to the election of Directors (each, a “Director Election Proxy Statement”), and at every adjournment or postponement thereof, and on every action or approval by written consent of the stockholders of the Company or the Board with respect to the election of members of the Board; and (iii) to use its reasonable best efforts to cause the election of each Nominee, including soliciting proxies in favor of the election of each Nominee, subject to applicable law. Each Principal Equity Owner will promptly report to the Company after such Principal Equity Owner ceases to Beneficially Own shares of Common Stock that entitle such Principal Equity Owner to nominate Directors under Section 2, such that the Company is informed of when this obligation terminates; provided, that such obligation of such Principal Equity Owner to notify the Company shall be deemed satisfied if such Principal Equity Owner makes a filing under Section 16 or Section 13 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 reflecting such change in the Common Stock Beneficially Owned by such Principal Equity Owner and the Company is capable of determining the termination of such obligation based on such filing without any additional information. The calculation of the number of Nominees that each Principal Equity Owner is entitled to nominate to the Board’s Slate for any election of Directors shall be based on Section 2(c) or Section 2(d) of this Agreement and the number of shares of Common Stock and/or percentage of the Common Stock then outstanding Beneficially Owned by each Principal Equity Owner (“Principal Equity Owner Voting Control”) immediately prior to the mailing to stockholders of the Director Election Proxy Statement relating to such election (or, if earlier, the filing of the definitive Director Election Proxy Statement with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission). Unless a Principal Equity Owner notifies the Company otherwise prior to the

 

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mailing to stockholders of the Director Election Proxy Statement relating to an election of Directors, the Nominees for such election shall be presumed to be the same Nominees currently serving on the Board, and no further action shall be required of any Principal Equity Owner for the Board to include such Nominees on the Board’s Slate; provided, that, in the event a Principal Equity Owner is no longer entitled to nominate the full number of Nominees then serving on the Board, such Principal Equity Owner shall provide advance written notice to the Company of which currently serving Nominee(s) shall be excluded from the Board Slate, and of any other changes to the list of Nominees. If a Principal Equity Owner fails to provide such notice prior to the mailing to stockholders of the Director Election Proxy Statement relating to such election (or, if earlier, the filing of the definitive Director Election Proxy Statement with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission), a majority of the independent directors then serving on the Board shall determine which of the Nominees of such Principal Equity Owner then serving on the Board will be included in the Board’s Slate.

(b) The Principal Equity Owners, severally and not jointly or jointly and severally, agree with the Company that each such Principal Equity Owner shall take all actions necessary and within their control to give effect to the provisions contained in this Section 2, including attending shareholder meetings at which Directors are being elected to be counted toward a quorum and voting the shares of Common Stock held directly or indirectly by such Principal Equity Owner (whether at a meeting or by written consent) to cause the nomination, election or replacement of the Nominees as provided for herein and otherwise using their reasonable best efforts to cause the Company to comply with its obligations hereunder. At any time that a Principal Equity Owner shall have any nomination rights under Section 2, the Company shall not take any action, including making or recommending any amendment to Company’s Certificate of Incorporation or Bylaws (each as may be further amended, supplemented or waived in accordance with its terms) that could reasonably be expected to adversely affect a Principal Equity Owner’s rights under this Agreement, in each case without the prior written consent of the adversely affected Principal Equity Owner.

(c) The Principal Equity Owners acknowledge and agree that it is intended, (i) by virtue of this Agreement, they are acting as a “group” within the meaning of the Stock Exchange rules as of the date hereof, and (ii) by virtue of the Principal Equity Owners having beneficial ownership of a majority of the voting power of the Company for the election of directors, the Issuer qualifies as a “controlled company” within the meaning of Stock Exchange rules as of the Effective Date. So long as the Company qualifies as a “controlled company” for purposes of Stock Exchange rules, the Company will elect to be a “controlled company” for purposes of Stock Exchange rules, and will disclose in its annual meeting proxy statement that it is a “controlled company” and the basis for that determination.

4. Committees.

(a) The Board may, from time to time, designate one or more committees and determine the composition of such committees; provided that, (x) so long as Permira Beneficially Owns at least 50% of its Closing Shares and is entitled to designate at least one (1) Nominee under Section 2, one (1) Permira Nominee who is a Director shall be entitled to be on all committees, other than any such committee whose function relates solely to transactions or arrangements with or involving Permira or any of its Affiliates and except to the extent that such membership would

 

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violate applicable securities laws or Stock Exchange rules, (y) so long as Warburg Pincus Beneficially Owns at least 50% of its Closing Shares and is entitled to designate at least one (1) Nominee under Section 2, one (1) Warburg Pincus Nominee who is a Director shall be entitled to be on all committees, other than any such committee whose function relates solely to transactions or arrangements with or involving Warburg Pincus or any of its Affiliates and except to the extent that such membership would violate applicable securities laws or Stock Exchange rules and (z) the Welsh Carson Nominees who are Directors shall be entitled to be on all committees, other than any such committee whose function relates solely to transactions or arrangements with or involving Welsh Carson or any of its Affiliates and except to the extent that such membership would violate applicable securities laws or Stock Exchange rules; provided, further, if the inclusion of either or both a Permira Nominee and Warburg Pincus Nominee on a committee would violate applicable securities laws or Stock Exchange rules, the relevant Principal Equity Owners shall determine in good faith which (if any) of their applicable Nominees shall serve on the committee, and the relevant Principal Equity Owner(s) whose nominee(s) does not serve on such committee shall be entitled to have its nominee act as an observer on such committee. Unless a Principal Equity Owner notifies the Company otherwise prior to the time the Board takes action to change the composition of a Board committee, and to the extent the applicable Principal Equity Owner is entitled to designate a Nominee pursuant to this Section 4, any Nominee currently designated by the applicable Principal Equity Owner to serve on a committee shall be presumed to be re-designated for such committee.

5. Observer. For so long as Welsh Carson is entitled to designate at least one (1) Nominee under Section 2, Welsh Carson shall be entitled to appoint up to two (2) non-voting observers at Board meetings who shall not be entitled to any compensation for such role and shall be entitled to receive confidential information provided to the Welsh Carson Nominees, subject to the terms of Section 6. For as long as Permira Beneficially Owns at least 50% of its Closing Shares and is entitled to designate at least one (1) Nominee under Section 2, Permira shall be entitled to appoint up to two (2) non-voting observers at Board meetings who shall not be entitled to any compensation for such role and shall be entitled to receive confidential information provided to the Permira Nominees, subject to the terms of Section 6. For as long as Warburg Pincus Beneficially Owns at least 50% of its Closing Shares and is entitled to designate at least one (1) Nominee under Section 2, Warburg Pincus shall be entitled to appoint up to two (2) non-voting observers at Board meetings who shall not be entitled to any compensation for such role and shall be entitled to receive confidential information provided to the Warburg Pincus Nominees, subject to the terms of Section 6. Any observer appointed pursuant to this Section 5 may be excluded from any meeting or portion thereof and materials may be withheld from such observer if attendance at such meeting or access to such information could adversely affect the attorney-client privilege between the Company and its counsel.

6. Confidential Information.

(a) The Company recognizes that Nominees and Observers (i) will from time to time receive non-public information concerning the Company, and (ii) may share such information with other individuals associated with the Principal Equity Owner that designated such Nominee or appointed such Observer. The Company hereby irrevocably consents to such sharing, subject to the terms of this Section 6. Except as may be required by a Governmental Entity, law, regulation, subpoena or valid subpoena or other lawful process (or as may be requested in

 

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connection with an examination or audit of a Principal Equity Owner by any Governmental Entity or other regulatory agencies having regulatory jurisdiction over a Principal Equity Owner), each Principal Equity Owner agrees that it will keep confidential and not disclose or divulge to any third party, or use to compete with the Company and its Subsidiaries, any confidential information regarding the Company it receives from the Company, a Nominee or an Observer for so long as this Agreement has not been terminated with respect to such Principal Equity Owner and for a period of two (2) years thereafter, unless such information (x) is known or becomes known to the public in general, (y) is or has been independently developed or conceived by such Principal Equity Owner without use of the Company’s confidential information or (z) is or has been made known or disclosed to such Principal Equity Owner by a third party without a breach of any obligation of confidentiality such third party may have; provided, however, that a Principal Equity Owner may disclose confidential information (I) to its Affiliates (other than portfolio companies), (II) to each of its and its Affiliates’ (other than portfolio companies’) attorneys, accountants, consultants, advisors and other professionals to the extent necessary to obtain their services in connection with evaluating the information, or (III) to another Principal Equity Owner or to such Principal Equity Owner’s or its Affiliates’ respective managers, directors, officers, current stockholders, current partners, current members, employees, representatives, agents, attorneys and consultants; provided, further, that each Principal Equity Owner shall be responsible for compliance with this Section 6 by its Affiliates and advisors described in the foregoing clauses (I), (II) and (III).

(b) Other than in connection with filings and periodic reporting obligations with or required by, or any general regulatory inquiries, investigations, audits or similar matters not targeted at the Company by, Governmental Entities and other regulatory agencies, if any Principal Equity Owner is compelled or requested by a Governmental Entity, law, regulation, subpoena, legal process or other demand for any confidential information with which such Principal Equity Owner believes it is legally obligated to comply, such Principal Equity Owner shall give prompt notice of such fact to the Company so that the Company may, if it desires, seek a protective order or other governmental or judicial relief to prevent disclosure of such information; provided that the Principal Equity Owner shall not be restricted from complying with an obligation to disclose such information during the time the Company is seeking a protective order or other governmental or judicial relief.

7. Indemnification.

(a) The Company agrees to indemnify and hold harmless each Principal Equity Owner, its respective directors, officers, partners, members, managers, Affiliates and controlling persons (each, an “Stockholder Indemnitee”) from and against any and all liability, including, without limitation, all obligations, costs, fines, claims, actions, injuries, demands, suits, judgments, proceedings, investigations, arbitrations (including stockholder claims, actions, injuries, demands, suits, judgments, proceedings, investigations or arbitrations) and reasonable expenses, including reasonable accountant’s and reasonable attorney’s fees and expenses (together the “Losses”), incurred by such Stockholder Indemnitee before or after the date of this Agreement to the extent arising out of, resulting from, or relating to (i) such Stockholder Indemnitee’s purchase and/or ownership of any Common Stock or (ii) any litigation to which any Stockholder Indemnitee is made a party in its capacity as a stockholder or owner of securities (or as a director, officer, partner, member, manager, Affiliate or controlling person of any Principal Equity Owner) of the Company

 

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(including any predecessor thereof); provided, that the foregoing indemnification rights in this Section 7(a) shall not be available to the extent that (a) any such Losses are incurred as a result of such Stockholder Indemnitee’s willful misconduct or gross negligence; (b) any such Losses are incurred as a result of non-compliance by such Stockholder Indemnitee with any laws or regulations applicable to it; or (c) subject to the rights of contribution provided for below, to the extent indemnification for any Losses would violate any applicable law or public policy. For purposes of this Section 7(a), none of the circumstances described in the limitations contained in the proviso in the immediately preceding sentence shall be deemed to apply absent a final non-appealable judgment of a court of competent jurisdiction to such effect, in which case to the extent any such limitation is so determined to apply to any Stockholder Indemnitee as to any previously advanced indemnity payments made by the Company under this Section 7(a), then such payments shall be promptly repaid by such Stockholder Indemnitee to the Company. The rights of any Stockholder Indemnitee to indemnification hereunder will be in addition to any other rights any such party may have under any other agreement or instrument to which such Stockholder Indemnitee is or becomes a party or is or otherwise becomes a beneficiary or under law or regulation. In the event of any payment of indemnification pursuant to this Section 7(a), to the extent that any Stockholder Indemnitee is indemnified for Losses, except as set forth in Section 7(d), the Company will be subrogated to the extent of such payment to all of the related rights of recovery of the Stockholder Indemnitee to which such payment is made against all other Persons. Such Stockholder Indemnitee shall execute all papers reasonably required to evidence such rights. The Company will be entitled at its election to participate in the defense of any third party claim upon which indemnification is due pursuant to this Section 7(a) or to assume the defense thereof, with counsel reasonably satisfactory to such Stockholder Indemnitee unless, in the reasonable judgment of the Stockholder Indemnitee, a conflict of interest between the Company and such Stockholder Indemnitee may exist, in which case such Stockholder Indemnitee shall have the right to assume its own defense and the Company shall be liable for all reasonable expenses therefor. Except as set forth above, should the Company assume such defense all further defense costs of the Stockholder Indemnitee in respect of such third party claim shall be for the sole account of such party and not subject to indemnification hereunder. The Company will not without the prior written consent of the Stockholder Indemnitee (which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld) effect any settlement of any threatened or pending third party claim in which such Stockholder Indemnitee is or could have been a party and be entitled to indemnification hereunder unless such settlement solely involves the payment of money by the Company and includes an unconditional release of such Stockholder Indemnitee from all liability and claims that are the subject matter of such claim. If the indemnification provided for above is unavailable in respect of any Losses, then the Company, in lieu of indemnifying an Stockholder Indemnitee, shall, if and to the extent permitted by law, contribute to the amount paid or payable by such Stockholder Indemnitee in such proportion as is appropriate to reflect the relative fault of the Company and such Stockholder Indemnitee in connection with the actions which resulted in such Losses, as well as any other equitable considerations.

(b) The Company agrees to pay or reimburse (i) the Principal Equity Owners for all reasonable costs and expenses (including reasonable attorneys’ fees, charges, disbursement and expenses) incurred in connection with any amendment, supplement, modification or waiver of or to any of the terms or provisions of this Agreement or any related agreements, except if the relevant amendment, supplement, modification or waiver were proposed or initiated by any of the Principal Equity Owners, in which case the Company shall not be liable for payment or

 

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reimbursement of such costs or expenses and (ii) each Principal Equity Owner for all costs and expenses of such Principal Equity Owner (including reasonable attorneys’ fees, charges, disbursement and expenses) incurred in connection with (1) the consent to any departure by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries from the terms of any provision of this Agreement or any related agreements and (2) the enforcement or exercise by such Principal Equity Owner of any right granted to it or provided for hereunder.

(c) The Company and its Subsidiaries shall obtain customary director and officer indemnity insurance on commercially reasonable terms which insurance shall cover each member of the Board and the members of each board of directors of each of the Company’s Subsidiaries and shall enter into an indemnification agreement with each member of the Board.

(d) The Company hereby acknowledges that the Stockholder Indemnitee may have certain rights to advancement and/or indemnification by certain Affiliates of Welsh Carson, certain Affiliates of Permira or certain Affiliates of Warburg Pincus (collectively, the “Fund Indemnitors”). In all events, (i) the Company hereby agrees that it is the indemnitor of first resort (i.e., its obligation to a Stockholder Indemnitee to provide advancement and/or indemnification to such Stockholder Indemnitee are primary and any obligation of the Fund Indemnitors (including any Affiliate thereof other than the Company)) to provide advancement or indemnification hereunder or under any other indemnification agreement (whether pursuant to contract, by-laws or charter), or any obligation of any insurer of the Fund Indemnitors to provide insurance coverage, for the same expenses, liabilities, judgments, penalties, fines and amounts paid in settlement (including all interest, assessments and other charges paid or payable in connection with or in respect of such expenses, liabilities, judgments, penalties, fines and amounts paid in settlement) incurred by such Stockholder Indemnitee are secondary and it irrevocably waives any claims against the Fund Indemnitors for contribution, subrogation, reimbursement or any other recovery of any kind for which the Company is liable pursuant to this Agreement and the Company’s by-laws or charter and (ii) if any Fund Indemnitor (or any Affiliate thereof, other than the Company) pays or causes to be paid, for any reason, any amounts otherwise indemnifiable hereunder or under any other indemnification agreement (whether pursuant to contract, by-laws or charter) with such Stockholder Indemnitee, then (x) such Fund Indemnitor (or such Affiliate, as the case may be) shall be fully subrogated to all rights of such Stockholder Indemnitee with respect to such payment and (y) the Company shall fully indemnify, reimburse and hold harmless such Fund Indemnitor (or such other Affiliate, as the case may be) for all such payments actually made by such Fund Indemnitor (or such other Affiliate, as the case may be).

8. Amendment and Waiver. Any provision of this Agreement may be amended or waived if, but only if, such amendment or waiver is in writing and is signed, in the case of an amendment, by the Company and each Principal Equity Owner that is then entitled to nominate a Director pursuant to Section 2, or in the case of a waiver, by the party against whom the waiver is to be effective. No failure or delay by any party in exercising any right, power or privilege hereunder shall operate as a waiver thereof nor shall any single or partial exercise thereof preclude any other or further exercise thereof or the exercise of any other right, power or privilege. The rights and remedies herein provided shall be cumulative and not exclusive of any rights or remedies provided by law. The Principal Equity Owners shall not be obligated to nominate all (or any) of the Nominees they are entitled to nominate pursuant to this Agreement for any election of Directors but the failure to do so shall not constitute a waiver of rights

 

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hereunder with respect to future elections; provided, however, that in the event a Principal Equity Owner fails to nominate all (or any) of the Nominees it is entitled to nominate pursuant to this Agreement prior to the mailing to stockholders of the Director Election Proxy Statement relating to such election (or, if earlier, the filing of the definitive Director Election Proxy Statement with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission), the Board (or, if delegated, the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee of the Board) shall be entitled to nominate individuals in lieu of such Nominees for inclusion in the Board’s Slate and the applicable Director Election Proxy Statement with respect to the election for which such failure occurred and such Principal Equity Owner shall be deemed to have waived its rights hereunder with respect to such election; provided, further, however, that any such waiver shall only be effective if the Company has provided written notice to such Principal Equity Owner of such Director Election Proxy Statement no less than 20 business days, and no more than 60 business days, prior to the earlier of the mailing or filing date of such Director Election Proxy Statement. The rights and remedies herein provided shall be cumulative and not exclusive of any rights or remedies provided by law.

9. Benefit of Parties. This Agreement shall be binding upon and shall inure to the benefit of the parties hereto and their respective permitted successors and assigns. Except as otherwise expressly provided in Section 10, nothing herein contained shall confer or is intended to confer on any third party or entity that is not a party to this Agreement any rights under this Agreement.

10. Assignment. Other than to a Permitted Transferee, none of the parties hereto may assign any of its respective rights or delegate any of its respective obligations under this Agreement without the prior written consent of the other parties hereto, and any attempted assignment or delegation in violation of the foregoing shall be null and void (it being agreed that (x) any pledge or other encumbrance, including in connection with any Permitted Financing (as defined in the Second Amended and Restated Registration Rights Agreement, dated September 28, 2021 by and among the Company and the Principal Equity Owners and other parties thereto from time to time, as amended from time to time), and (y) the re-registration of any Principal Equity Owner’s securities in the name of a lender, counterparty, custodian or similar party to a Permitted Financing, solely as nominee or securities intermediary, in each case, shall not be considered an assignment for this purpose for so long as such Principal Equity Owner or its Affiliates continues to beneficially own such securities (but foreclosure or other exercise of remedies shall be considered an assignment for this purpose so long as such securities are beneficially owned by a lender or a third-party purchaser)).

11. Headings. Headings are for ease of reference only and shall not form a part of this Agreement.

12. Governing Law. This Agreement shall be construed in accordance with and governed by the law of the State of Delaware without giving effect to the principles of conflicts of laws thereof.

 

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13. Jurisdiction. Any suit, action or proceeding seeking to enforce any provision of, or based on any matter arising out of or in connection with, this Agreement may be brought against any of the parties in any federal court located in the State of Delaware or any Delaware state court, and each of the parties hereby consents to the exclusive jurisdiction of such court (and of the appropriate appellate courts) in any such suit, action or proceeding and waives any objection to venue laid therein. Process in any such suit, action or proceeding may be served on any party anywhere in the world, whether within or without the jurisdiction of any such court. Without limiting the foregoing, each of the parties agrees that service of process upon such party at the address referred to in Section 20, together with written notice of such service to such party, shall be deemed effective service of process upon such party.

14. WAIVER OF JURY TRIAL. EACH OF THE PARTIES HERETO HEREBY IRREVOCABLY WAIVES ANY AND ALL RIGHT TO TRIAL BY JURY IN ANY LEGAL PROCEEDING ARISING OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THIS AGREEMENT.

15. Entire Agreement. This Agreement constitutes the entire agreement among the parties with respect to the subject matter hereof and supersedes all prior agreements, understandings and negotiations, both written and oral among the parties with respect to the subject matter hereof.

16. Termination. This Agreement shall terminate at such time as no Principal Equity Owner is entitled to nominate a Director pursuant to Section 2. This Agreement shall also terminate with respect to an individual Principal Equity Owner upon the earlier of (i) such Principal Equity Owner no longer being entitled to nominate a Director pursuant to Section 2 and (ii) the delivery of a written notice by such Principal Equity Owner to the Company requesting that this Agreement terminate with respect to such Principal Equity Owner. Notwithstanding the foregoing, Section 2(f), Sections 6 through 23 shall survive any termination of this Agreement.

17. Severability. If any provision of this Agreement or the application thereof to any person or circumstance shall be invalid or unenforceable to any extent, the remainder of this Agreement and the application of such provisions to other persons or circumstances shall not be affected thereby and shall be enforced to the greatest extent permitted by law.

18. Further Assurances. Each of the parties hereto shall execute and deliver such further instruments and do such further acts and things as may be required to carry out the intent and purpose of this Agreement. The provisions of this Agreement shall apply to the full extent set forth herein with respect to shares of Common Stock, to any and all shares of capital stock of the Company or any successor or assign of the Company (whether by merger, consolidation, sale of assets or otherwise) which may be issued in respect of, in exchange for, or in substitution of the shares of Common Stock, by reason of a stock dividend, stock split, stock issuance, reverse stock split, combination, recapitalization, reclassification, merger, consolidation or otherwise.

19. Specific Performance. Each of the parties hereto agree that irreparable damage would occur if any provision of this Agreement were not performed in accordance with the terms hereof and that the parties shall be entitled to an injunction or injunctions to prevent breaches of this Agreement or to enforce specifically the performance of the terms and provisions hereof in any federal or state court located in the State of Delaware, in addition to any other remedy to which they are entitled at law or in equity.

 

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20. Notices. All notices, requests and other communications to any party shall be in writing (including email or similar writing) and shall be given:

If to the Company:

Clearwater Analytics Holdings, Inc.

777 W. Main Street, Suite 900 Boise, ID 83702 Attention: Chief Legal Officer

Fax: ***** Email:

With a copy to (which shall not constitute notice):

Kirkland & Ellis LLP

601 Lexington Avenue New York, NY 10022

Attention: Joshua N. Korff and Ross M. Leff

Email: *****

If to Welsh Carson or any of its Nominees:

c/o Welsh, Carson, Anderson & Stowe

599 Lexington Avenue, 18th Floor New York, NY 10022

Attention:

Email:

If to Permira or any of its Nominees:

c/o Permira Advisers LLC

320 Park Avenue, 28th Floor

New York, NY 10022

Attention: Justin Herridge

Email: *****

If to Warburg Pincus or any of its Nominees:

Warburg Pincus LLC

450 Lexington Avenue

New York, NY 10017

Attention:

Email:

or to such other address or email address as such party may hereafter specify for the purpose by notice to the other parties. Each such notice, request or other communication shall be effective when delivered at the address specified in this Section 20 during regular business hours.

21. Enforcement. Each of the parties hereto covenants and agrees that the disinterested members of the Board have the right to enforce, waive or take any other action with respect to this Agreement on behalf of the Company.

 

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22. Interpretation. Each of the parties hereto acknowledges that each party has been represented by legal counsel in connection with this Agreement. Accordingly, any rule of law or any legal decision that would require interpretation of any claimed ambiguities in this Agreement against the drafting party has no application and is expressly waived.

23. Counterparts; Effectiveness. This Agreement may be signed in any number of counterparts, each of which shall be deemed an original. This Agreement shall become effective when each party shall have received a counterpart hereof signed by each of the other parties. An executed copy or counterpart hereof delivered by facsimile shall be deemed an original instrument.

[signature page follows]

 

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have executed this Stockholders Agreement as of the date first set forth above.

 

CLEARWATER ANALYTICS HOLDINGS, INC.
By:  

/s/ Jim Cox

  Name: Jim Cox
  Title   Chief Financial Officer

[Signature Page to Stockholders Agreement]


IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have executed this Stockholders Agreement as of the date first set forth above.

 

WCAS UNITHOLDERS:

 

WCAS XII CARBON ANALYTICS ACQUISITION, L.P.

By: WCAS XII Associates LLC, its General Partner
By:  

/s/ Jonathan Rather

  Name: Jonathan Rather
  Title   Managing Member

WCAS XIII CARBON ANALYTICS ACQUISITION, L.P.

 

By: WCAS XIII Associates LLC, its General Partner

By:  

/s/ Jonathan Rather

  Name: Jonathan Rather
  Title   Managing Member
WCAS GP CW LLC
By:  

/s/ Jonathan Rather

  Name: Jonathan Rather
  Title   Managing Member

[Signature Page to Stockholders Agreement]


WELSH, CARSON, ANDERSON & STOWE XII, L.P.
By: WCAS XII Associates LLC, its General Partner
By:  

/s/ Jonathan Rather

Name: Jonathan Rather
Title:   Managing Member
WELSH, CARSON, ANDERSON & STOWE XII DELAWARE L.P.
By: WCAS XII Associates Cayman, L.P., its General Partner
By:  

/s/ Jonathan Rather

Name: Jonathan Rather
Title:   Managing Member
WELSH, CARSON, ANDERSON & STOWE XII DELAWARE II, L.P.
By: WCAS XII Associates LLC, its General Partner
By:  

/s/ Jonathan Rather

Name: Jonathan Rather
Title:   Managing Member
WELSH, CARSON, ANDERSON & STOWE XII CAYMAN, L.P.
By: WCAS XII Associates Cayman, L.P., its General Partner
By:  

/s/ Jonathan Rather

Name: Jonathan Rather
Title:   Managing Member

[Signature Page to Stockholders Agreement]


WCAS XII CARBON INVESTORS, L.P.
By: WCAS XII Associates LLC, its General Partner
By:  

/s/ Jonathan Rather

Name: Jonathan Rather
Title:   Managing Member
WCAS XIII CARBON INVESTORS, L.P.
By: WCAS XIII Associates LLC, its General Partner
By:  

/s/ Jonathan Rather

Name: Jonathan Rather
Title:   Managing Member
WCAS XIII, L.P.
By: WCAS XIII Associates LLC, its General Partner
By:  

/s/ Jonathan Rather

Name: Jonathan Rather
Title:   Managing Member
WCAS XIII CAYMAN, L.P.
By: WCAS XIII Associates LLC, its General Partner
By:  

/s/ Jonathan Rather

Name: Jonathan Rather
Title:   Managing Member

[Signature Page to Stockholders Agreement]


IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have executed this Stockholders Agreement as of the date first set forth above.

 

WP CA HOLDCO, L.P.
By:  

/s/ Harsha Marti

  Name: Harsha Marti
  Title: Authorized Signatory
GALIBIER PURCHASER LLC
By:  

/s/ Justin Herridge

  Name: Justin Herridge
  Title: Manager

[Signature Page to Stockholders Agreement]


Annex A

JOINDER AGREEMENT TO STOCKHOLDERS’ AGREEMENT

This Joinder Agreement (this “Joinder Agreement”) is made by the undersigned (the “Joining Party”) in accordance with that certain Stockholders’ Agreement, dated as of , 2021, by and among Clearwater Analytics Holdings, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “Company”) and the stockholders party thereto (as may be amended, the “Stockholders’ Agreement”), in favor of and for the benefit of the Company and such stockholders. Capitalized terms used but not defined herein shall have the meanings given to such terms in the Stockholders’ Agreement.

The Joining Party hereby acknowledges, agrees and confirms that, by his, her or its execution of this Joinder Agreement, the Joining Party will be deemed to be a party to the Stockholders’ Agreement and shall have all of the obligations under the Stockholders’ Agreement as Welsh Carson, Warburg Pincus or Permira, as applicable, as if he, she or it had been an original signatory to the Stockholders’ Agreement. The Joining Party hereby ratifies, as of the date hereof, and agrees to be bound by, all of the terms, provisions and conditions contained in the Stockholders Agreement.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has executed this Joinder Agreement as of the date written below.

 

[JOINING PARTY]
By:  

 

  Name:
  Title

Exhibit 10.3

TAX RECEIVABLE AGREEMENT

among

CLEARWATER ANALYTICS HOLDINGS, INC.

and

THE PERSONS NAMED HEREIN

Dated as of September 28, 2021

 


TABLE OF CONTENTS

 

         Page  

ARTICLE I DEFINITIONS

     2  

Section 1.1

  Definitions      2  

ARTICLE II DETERMINATION OF CERTAIN REALIZED TAX BENEFIT

     13  

Section 2.1

  Basis Schedule      13  

Section 2.2

  Tax Benefit Schedule      14  

Section 2.3

  Procedures, Amendments      15  

ARTICLE III TAX BENEFIT PAYMENTS

     16  

Section 3.1

  Payments      16  

Section 3.2

  No Duplicative Payments      18  

Section 3.3

  Pro Rata Payments      18  

Section 3.4

  Payment Ordering      18  

Section 3.5

  Excess Payments      18  

ARTICLE IV TERMINATION

     19  

Section 4.1

  Early Termination of Agreement; Breach of Agreement      19  

Section 4.2

  Early Termination Notice      20  

Section 4.3

  Payment upon Early Termination      21  

ARTICLE V SUBORDINATION AND LATE PAYMENTS

     22  

Section 5.1

  Subordination      22  

Section 5.2

  Late Payments by the Corporate Taxpayer      22  

ARTICLE VI NO DISPUTES; CONSISTENCY; COOPERATION

     22  

Section 6.1

  Participation in the Corporate Taxpayer’s and OpCo’s Tax Matters      22  

Section 6.2

  Consistency      23  

Section 6.3

  Cooperation      23  

ARTICLE VII MISCELLANEOUS

     23  

Section 7.1

  Notices      23  

Section 7.2

  Counterparts      24  

Section 7.3

  Entire Agreement; No Third Party Beneficiaries      24  

Section 7.4

  Governing Law      24  

Section 7.5

  Severability      24  

Section 7.6

  Successors; Assignment; Amendments; Waivers      24  

Section 7.7

  Titles and Subtitles      26  

Section 7.8

  Resolution of Disputes      26  

Section 7.9

  Reconciliation      26  

Section 7.10

  Withholding      27  

Section 7.11

  Admission of the Corporate Taxpayer into a Consolidated Group; Transfers of Corporate Assets      28  

Section 7.12

  Confidentiality      29  

Section 7.13

  Change in Law      30  

Section 7.14

  Electronic Signature      30  

 


TAX RECEIVABLE AGREEMENT

This TAX RECEIVABLE AGREEMENT (this “Agreement”), is dated as of September 28, 2021, and is between Clearwater Analytics Holdings, Inc., a Delaware corporation (“Corporate Taxpayer”), each of the undersigned parties, and each of the other persons from time to time that becomes a party hereto (each, excluding CWAN Holdings, LLC (“OpCo”), a “TRA Party” and together the “TRA Parties”).

RECITALS

WHEREAS, the TRA Parties directly or indirectly hold units (the “Units”) in OpCo (as defined below), which is classified as a partnership for United States federal income tax purposes;

WHEREAS, after the IPO (as defined below) Corporate Taxpayer will be the sole managing member of OpCo, and holds and will hold, directly and/or indirectly, Units;

WHEREAS, the Units held by certain TRA Parties may be exchanged for Class A common stock (the “Class A Shares”) or Class D common stock (the “Class D Shares”) of the Corporate Taxpayer (as defined below), in accordance with and subject to the provisions of the LLC Agreement (as defined below);

WHEREAS, in connection with the IPO, each of the Blockers will merge with and into a wholly owned disregarded subsidiary of the Corporate Taxpayer in a transaction intended to be governed by Section 368(a) of the Code (as defined below) as a result of which the Corporate Taxpayer will acquire Units previously indirectly owned by the Blocker TRA Parties through the Blockers (each a “Blocker Exchange”);

WHEREAS, as a result of the Blocker Exchanges, the Corporate Taxpayer will (i) be entitled to utilize Pre-Merger NOLs (as defined below) and (ii) obtain the benefit of the Blocker Transferred Basis (as defined below);

WHEREAS, OpCo and each of its direct and indirect Subsidiaries (as defined below) that is treated as a partnership for United States federal income tax purposes currently have and will have in effect an election under Section 754 of the Code for each Taxable Year (as defined below) that includes the IPO Date and for each Taxable Year in which a taxable acquisition (including a deemed taxable acquisition under Section 707(a) of the Code) or non-taxable acquisition of Units (directly or indirectly) by the Corporate Taxpayer or by OpCo from any of the TRA Parties (an “Exchanging Holder”) for Class A Shares or Class D Shares and/or other consideration (an “Exchange”) occurs;

WHEREAS, certain options to purchase Units of OpCo granted prior to, and unexercised as of, the IPO Date held by the executive officers of the Corporate Taxpayer listed on Exhibit C hereto (the “Eligible Executive Officers”; provided that an executive officer whose employment with the Corporate Taxpayer or its Affiliates is terminated for any reason prior to the bonus payment trigger date in such executive officer’s TRA Bonus Agreement shall no longer be an Eligible Executive Officer hereunder) will, in connection with the IPO, be converted into options to purchase shares of Class A Shares of the Corporate Taxpayer;


WHEREAS, each Eligible Executive Officer has entered into a TRA Bonus Agreement dated on or about the date hereof;

WHEREAS, the income, gain, loss, expense and other Tax items of the Corporate Taxpayer may be affected by the (i) Pre-Merger NOLs, (ii) Blocker Transferred Basis, (iii) Basis Adjustments, (v) compensation deductions (if any) arising in respect of payments made under any TRA Bonus Agreement (“TRA Bonus Deductions”) and (v) Imputed Interest (as defined below) (collectively, the “Tax Attributes”);

WHEREAS, the parties to this Agreement desire to provide for certain payments and make certain arrangements with respect to the effect of the Tax Attributes on the liability for Taxes (as defined below) of the Corporate Taxpayer and to provide for the calculation of amounts payable under the TRA Bonus Agreements.

NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the foregoing and the respective covenants and agreements set forth herein, and intending to be legally bound hereby, the parties hereto agree as follows:

ARTICLE I

DEFINITIONS

Section 1.1 Definitions. As used in this Agreement, the terms set forth in this Article I shall have the following meanings (such meanings to be equally applicable to both the singular and plural forms of the terms defined).

Actual Tax Liability” means, with respect to any Taxable Year, the sum of (i) the actual liability for U.S. federal income Taxes of the Corporate Taxpayer as reported on its IRS Form 1120 (or any successor form) for such Taxable Year, and, without duplication, the portion of any liability for U.S. federal income taxes imposed directly on OpCo (and OpCo’s applicable Subsidiaries) under Section 6225 or any similar provision of the Code that is allocable to the Corporate Taxpayer under Section 704 of the Code and/or the Partnership Audit Rules (provided, that such amount will be calculated excluding deductions of (and other effects of) state and local income taxes) and (ii) the product of the amount of the United States federal taxable income or gain for such Taxable Year reported on the Corporate Taxpayer’s IRS Form 1120 (or any successor form) and the Assumed State and Local Tax Rate.

Affiliate” means, with respect to any Person, any other Person that directly or indirectly, through one or more intermediaries, Controls, is Controlled by, or is under common Control with, such first Person.

Agreed Rate” means a per annum rate of the lesser of (i) 6.5% and (ii) LIBOR plus 100 basis points.

Agreement” has the meaning set forth in the Preamble to this Agreement.

Amended Schedule” has the meaning set forth in Section 2.3(b) of this Agreement.

 

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Assumed State and Local Tax Rate” means, the tax rate equal to the sum of the product of (x) OpCo’s income and franchise Tax apportionment rate(s) for each state and local jurisdiction in which OpCo files income or franchise Tax Returns for the relevant Taxable Year with respect to Taxes payable on a pass-through basis and (y) the highest corporate income and franchise Tax rate(s) for each such state and local jurisdiction in which OpCo files such income or franchise Tax Returns for each relevant Taxable Year; provided, that the Assumed State and Local Tax Rate calculated pursuant to the foregoing shall be reduced by the assumed federal income Tax benefit received by the Corporate Taxpayer with respect to state and local jurisdiction income and franchise Taxes (with such benefit calculated as the product of (a) the Corporate Taxpayer’s marginal U.S. federal income tax rate for the relevant Taxable Year and (b) the Assumed State and Local Tax Rate (without regard to this proviso)). At the Corporate Taxpayer’s election, the Corporate Taxpayer shall be entitled to determine the Assumed State and Local Tax Rate for a given Taxable Year as of January 1 of the relevant Taxable Year based on good faith estimates of its expected apportionment rates for such Taxable Year and on the Tax rates in effect in relevant jurisdictions as of January 1 of the relevant Taxable Year.

Attributable” means the portion of any Tax Attribute of the Corporate Taxpayer that is “Attributable” to any present or former holder of Units, other than the Corporate Taxpayer, and shall be determined by reference to the Tax Attributes, under the following principles:

(i) any Pre-Merger NOLs shall be determined separately with respect to each Blocker and are Attributable to the Blocker TRA Parties thereof (proportionally among such Blocker TRA Parties based on the share ownership in such Blocker of such Blocker TRA Parties prior to the Blocker Exchange) proportionately among such Blockers based on the amount of Pre-Merger NOLs attributable to such Blocker at the time of the Blocker Exchange and that the Corporate Taxpayer would also have had the use of but for such Blocker Exchange;

(ii) any Blocker Transferred Basis shall be determined separately with respect to each Blocker and is Attributable to the Blocker TRA Parties thereof (proportionally among such Blocker TRA Parties based on the share ownership in such Blocker of such Blocker TRA Parties prior to the Blocker Exchange) proportionately based on the remaining net positive adjustments under Section 743(b) attributable to the Reference Property associated with the Units that were acquired as a result of the participation in the Blocker Exchange of such Blocker and the relevant Blocker Shareholders;

(iii) any Basis Adjustments shall be determined separately with respect to each Exchanging Holder, using reasonable methods for tracking such Basis Adjustments, and are Attributable to each Exchanging Holder in an amount equal to the total Basis Adjustments relating to such Units Exchanged by such Exchanging Holder (determined without regard to any dilutive or antidilutive effect of any contribution to or distribution from OpCo after the date of an applicable Exchange, and taking into account any adjustment under Section 743(b) of the Code);

(iv) any TRA Bonus Deduction shall be Attributable to each TRA Party on an annual basis in proportion to the reduction of such TRA Party’s payment under Section 3.1(c) in respect of the TRA Bonus Amount that gave rise to such TRA Bonus Deduction (and, for the avoidance of doubt, the TRA Bonus Deduction will be treated as arising in the Taxable Year in which the TRA Bonus Amount is paid); and

 

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(v) any deduction to the Corporate Taxpayer with respect to a Taxable Year in respect of Imputed Interest is Attributable to the Person that is required to include the Imputed Interest in income (without regard to whether such Person is actually subject to Tax thereon).

Basis Adjustment” means the adjustment to the Tax basis of Reference Property under Sections 732, 734(b), 1012 and/or 1014 of the Code (in situations where, as a result of one or more Exchanges, OpCo becomes an entity that is disregarded as separate from its owner for United States federal income tax purposes) or under Sections 734(b), 743(b) and/or 754 of the Code (in situations where, following an Exchange, OpCo remains in existence as an entity treated as a partnership for United States federal income tax purposes) as a result of an Exchange and the payments made pursuant to this Agreement in respect of such Exchange; provided, that any adjustment to the Tax basis of Reference Property under Section 734(b) of the Code resulting from the distribution of property by a person treated as a partner of OpCo that is an Upper-Tier Partnership to any partner or member of such Upper-Tier Partnership shall not be considered a Basis Adjustment for purposes of this Agreement and any Basis Adjustment with respect to such Reference Property as a result of a subsequent transaction shall be determined as if such distribution had not occurred. For the avoidance of doubt, the amount of any Basis Adjustment resulting from an Exchange of one or more Units shall be determined without regard to any Pre-Exchange Transfer of such Units and as if any such Pre-Exchange Transfer had not occurred. The amount of any Basis Adjustment shall be determined using the Market Value at the time of the Exchange.

Basis Schedule” has the meaning set forth in Section 2.1 of this Agreement.

Beneficial Owner” means, with respect to any security, a Person who directly or indirectly, through any contract, arrangement, understanding, relationship or otherwise, has or shares: (i) voting power, which includes the power to vote, or to direct the voting of, such security; and/or (ii) investment power, which includes the power to dispose of, or to direct the disposition of, such security. The term “Beneficial Ownership” shall have a correlative meaning.

Blocker” means any of the Permira Blocker, the Warburg Blocker, the WCAS XII Blocker, the WCAS XIII Blocker, and the Durable Blocker.

Blocker Exchange” has the meaning set forth in the Recitals to this agreement.

Blocker Transferred Basis” means remaining adjustments to the Tax basis of OpCo’s Reference Property made under Section 743(b) with respect to the Blockers that existed as of immediately prior to the Blocker Exchange..

Blocker TRA Parties” means the persons listed on Exhibit B.

Board” means the Board of Directors of the Corporate Taxpayer.

 

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Business Day” means each day that is not a Saturday, Sunday or other day on which banking institutions in New York, New York or Boise, Idaho are authorized or required by law to close.

Change of Control” means the occurrence of any of the following events:

(i) any Person or any “group” of Persons acting together that would constitute a “group” for purposes of Section 13(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended or any successor provisions thereto (excluding (a) a corporation or other entity owned, directly or indirectly, by the stockholders of the Corporate Taxpayer in substantially the same proportions as their ownership of stock of the Corporate Taxpayer or (b) the WCAS Parties or any of their Affiliates or a group of Persons that includes the WCAS Parties or any of their Affiliates) is or becomes the Beneficial Owner, directly or indirectly, of securities of the Corporate Taxpayer representing more than 50% of the combined voting power of the Corporate Taxpayer’s then outstanding voting securities; or

(ii) there is consummated a merger or consolidation of the Corporate Taxpayer with any other corporation or other entity, and, immediately after the consummation of such merger or consolidation, either (x) the Board immediately prior to the merger or consolidation does not constitute at least a majority of the board of directors of the company surviving the merger or consolidation or, if the surviving company is a Subsidiary, the ultimate parent thereof, or (y) the voting securities of the Corporate Taxpayer immediately prior to such merger or consolidation do not continue to represent or are not converted into more than 50% of the combined voting power of the then outstanding voting securities of the Person resulting from such merger or consolidation or, if the surviving company is a Subsidiary, the ultimate parent thereof; or

(iii) the stockholders of the Corporate Taxpayer approve a plan of complete liquidation or dissolution of the Corporate Taxpayer or there is consummated an agreement or series of related agreements for the sale, lease or other disposition, directly or indirectly, by the Corporate Taxpayer of all or substantially all of the Corporate Taxpayer’s assets, other than such sale or other disposition by the Corporate Taxpayer of all or substantially all of the Corporate Taxpayer’s assets to an entity at least 50% of the combined voting power of the voting securities of which are owned by stockholders of the Corporate Taxpayer in substantially the same proportions as their ownership of the Corporate Taxpayer immediately prior to such sale or other disposition.

Notwithstanding the foregoing, except with respect to clause (ii)(x) above, a “Change of Control” shall not be deemed to have occurred by virtue of the consummation of any transaction or series of integrated transactions immediately following which the record holders of the shares of the Corporate Taxpayer immediately prior to such transaction or series of transactions continue to have substantially the same proportionate ownership in, and voting control over, and own substantially all of the shares of, an entity which owns, directly or indirectly, all or substantially all of the assets of the Corporate Taxpayer immediately following such transaction or series of transactions.

Class A Shares” has the meaning set forth in the Recitals of this Agreement.

 

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Class D Shares” has the meaning set forth in the Recitals of this Agreement.

Code” means the United States Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended.

Control” means the possession, direct or indirect, of the power to direct or cause the direction of the management and policies of a Person, whether through ownership of voting securities, by contract or otherwise.

Corporate Taxpayer” means Clearwater Analytics Holdings, Inc. and any successor corporation and shall include any company that is a member of any consolidated Tax Return of which Clearwater Analytics Holdings, Inc. is a member.

Corporate Taxpayer Return” means the United States federal income Tax Return of the Corporate Taxpayer filed with respect to Taxes of any Taxable Year, including any consolidated Tax Return.

Cumulative Net Realized Tax Benefit” for a Taxable Year means the cumulative amount of Realized Tax Benefits for all Taxable Years of the Corporate Taxpayer, up to and including such Taxable Year, net of the Realized Tax Detriment for the same period. The Realized Tax Benefit and Realized Tax Detriment for each Taxable Year shall be determined based on the most recent Tax Benefit Schedules or Amended Schedules, if any, in existence at the time of such determination; provided, that, for the avoidance of doubt, the computation of the Cumulative Net Realized Tax Benefit shall be adjusted to reflect any applicable Determination with respect to any Realized Tax Benefits and/or Realized Tax Detriments.

Determination” shall have the meaning ascribed to such term in Section 1313(a) of the Code or any other event (including the execution of IRS Form 870-AD), including a settlement with the applicable Taxing Authority, that establishes the amount of any liability for Tax.

Durable Blocker” means DCP CA Blocker LLC.

Early Termination Date” means the date of an Early Termination Notice for purposes of determining the Early Termination Payment.

Early Termination Effective Date” means the date on which an Early Termination Schedule becomes binding pursuant to Section 4.2.

Early Termination Notice” has the meaning set forth in Section 4.2 of this Agreement.

Early Termination Payment” has the meaning set forth in Section 4.3(b) of this Agreement.

Early Termination Rate” means the lesser of (i) 6.5% and (ii) LIBOR plus 100 basis points.

 

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Early Termination Schedule” has the meaning set forth in Section 4.2 of this Agreement.

Eligible EO Percentage” means the sum of the Individual EO Percentages of each Eligible Executive Officer.

Eligible Executive Officer” has the meaning set forth in the Recitals of this Agreement.

Exchange” has the meaning set forth in the Recitals of this Agreement.

Exchange Date” means the date of any Exchange.

Exchanging Holder” has the meaning set forth in the Recitals of this Agreement.

Expert” has the meaning set forth in Section 7.9 of this Agreement.

Future TRAs” has the meaning set forth in Section 5.1 of this Agreement.

Hypothetical Tax Liability” means, with respect to any Taxable Year, the liability for Taxes of (i) the Corporate Taxpayer and (ii) without duplication, the portion of any liability for U.S. federal income taxes imposed directly on OpCo (and OpCo’s applicable Subsidiaries) under Section 6225 or any similar provision of the Code that is allocable to the Corporate Taxpayer under Section 704 of the Code and/or the Partnership Audit Rules, in each case using the same methods, elections, conventions and similar practices used on the relevant Corporate Taxpayer Return, but (a) using the Non-Stepped Up Tax Basis as reflected on the Basis Schedule including amendments thereto for the Taxable Year, (b) excluding any Pre-Merger NOLs and (c) excluding any deduction attributable to Imputed Interest attributable to any payment made under this Agreement for the Taxable Year and any TRA Bonus Deduction for such Taxable Year; provided, that Hypothetical Tax Liability shall be calculated (x) excluding deductions of state and local income taxes for U.S. federal income tax purposes and (y) assuming the liability for state and local Taxes (but not, for the avoidance of doubt, United States federal taxes) shall be equal to the product of (i) the amount of the U.S. federal taxable income or gain calculated for purposes of this definition of Hypothetical Tax Liability for such Taxable Year multiplied by (ii) the Assumed State and Local Tax Rate. For the avoidance of doubt, (i) Hypothetical Tax Liability shall be determined without taking into account the carryover or carryback of any Tax item (or portions thereof) that is attributable to a Tax Attribute as applicable and (ii) the basis of the Reference Property in the aggregate for purposes of determining the Hypothetical Tax Liability can never be less than zero.

Imputed Interest” in respect of a TRA Party shall mean any interest imputed under Section 1272, 1274, 7872 or 483 or other provision of the Code with respect to the Corporate Taxpayer’s payment obligations in respect of such TRA Party under this Agreement.

Independent Director” means any member of the Board who is not affiliated with any current or former TRA Party and who is neither a current nor former officer of the Corporate Taxpayer or any of its Subsidiaries.

 

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Individual EO Percentage” means the percentage specified in any Executive Officer’s TRA Bonus Agreement. The sum of the Individual EO Percentages shall never exceed the Maximum EO Percentage.

Interest Amount” has the meaning set forth in Section 3.1(b) of this Agreement.

IPO” means the initial public offering of Class A Shares by the Corporate Taxpayer (including any greenshoe related to such initial public offering).

IPO Date” means the initial closing date of the IPO.

IPO Restructuring” means the series of transactions occurring prior to or in connection with the IPO resulting in Corporate Taxpayer being a holding company and its principal asset consisting of interests in OpCo.

IRS” means the United States Internal Revenue Service.

Joinder” has the meaning set forth in Section 7.6(a) of this Agreement.

LIBOR” means during any period, the rate which appears on the Bloomberg Page BBAM1 (or on such other substitute Bloomberg page that displays rates at which U.S. dollar deposits are offered by leading banks in the London interbank deposit market), or the rate which is quoted by another source selected by the Corporate Taxpayer as an authorized information vendor for the purpose of displaying rates at which U.S. dollar deposits are offered by leading banks in the London interbank deposit market (an “Alternate Source”), at approximately 11:00 a.m., London time, two (2) Business Days prior to the first day of such period as the London interbank offered rate for U.S. dollars having a borrowing date and a maturity comparable to such period; provided, that at no time shall LIBOR be less than 0%. At the earliest of (i) the date that LIBOR is no longer a widely recognized benchmark rate for newly originated loans in the U.S. loan market in U.S. dollars, (ii) June 30, 2023 and (iii) the date on which the TRA Party Representative and Corporate Taxpayer mutually agree that it is appropriate to establish a replacement interest rate (a “Replacement Rate”), then the Corporate Taxpayer shall (as determined by the Corporate Taxpayer to be consistent with market practice generally and subject to the prior written consent of the TRA Party Representative, which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld, conditioned or delayed), establish a Replacement Rate, in which case, the Replacement Rate shall, subject to the next two sentences, replace LIBOR for all purposes under this Agreement; provided that unless otherwise mutually agreed by the TRA Party Representative and the Corporate Taxpayer, the Replacement Rate shall be SOFR. In connection with the establishment and application of the Replacement Rate, this Agreement shall be amended solely with the consent of the Corporate Taxpayer and OpCo, as may be necessary or appropriate, in the reasonable judgment of the Corporate Taxpayer, to effect the provisions of this section. The Replacement Rate shall be applied in a manner consistent with market practice; provided that, in each case, to the extent such market practice is not administratively feasible for the Corporate Taxpayer, such Replacement Rate shall be applied as otherwise reasonably determined by the Corporate Taxpayer.

 

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LLC Agreement” means, with respect to OpCo, (i) prior to the IPO Restructuring, the Second Amended and Restated Limited Liability Company Agreement of CWAN Holdings, LLC, dated as of November 2, 2020, as such agreement may be further amended, restated, supplemented and/or otherwise modified from time to time and (ii) following the IPO Restructuring, the Third Amended and Restated Limited Liability Company Agreement of CWAN Holdings, LLC, as such agreement may be further amended, restated, supplemented and/or otherwise modified from time to time.

LLC Unit Holder” means holders of Units other than the Corporate Taxpayer.

Market Value” shall mean, with respect to an Exchange, the value of the Class A Shares or Class D Shares, as the case may be, on the applicable Exchange Date used by the Corporate Taxpayer in its U.S. federal income tax reporting with respect to such Exchange.

Material Objection Notice” has the meaning set forth in Section 4.2 of this Agreement.

Maximum EO Percentage” means 4.6%.

Net Tax Benefit” has the meaning set forth in Section 3.1(b) of this Agreement.

Non-Stepped Up Tax Basis” means, with respect to any Reference Property, the Tax basis that such property would have had at such time if no Basis Adjustments had been made and if the Blocker Transferred Basis was equal to zero.

Objection Notice” has the meaning set forth in Section 2.3(a) of this Agreement.

OpCo” has the meaning set forth in the Preamble to this Agreement.

Partnership Audit Rules” means the centralized partnership audit regime enacted by the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2015, as set forth in Sections 6221 through 6241 of the Code and any Treasury Regulations and administrative guidance thereunder.

Permira Blocker” means Galibier Intermediate, Inc., including its wholly owned subsidiary, Galicorp, Inc.

Permira Parties” means the persons identified as Permira Parties in Exhibit B.

Permira Representative” means the person identified as the Permira Representative in Exhibit B.

Person” means any individual, corporation, firm, partnership, joint venture, limited liability company, estate, trust, business association, organization, governmental entity or other entity.

Pre-Exchange Transfer” means any transfer (including upon the death or dissolution of an LLC Unit Holder) or distribution in respect of one or more Units (i) that occurs prior to an Exchange of such Units, and (ii) to which Section 734(b) or 743(b) of the Code applies.

 

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Pre-Merger NOLs” means, without duplication, the net operating losses, capital losses, research and development credits, (excluding excess Section 163(j) limitation carryforwards) that the Corporate Taxpayer is entitled to utilize as a result of a Blocker’s participation in a Blocker Exchange that relate to periods (or portions thereof) prior to the Blocker Exchange; provided, however, that in order to determine whether any such Tax attribute is a Pre-Merger NOL, the Taxable Year of the Corporate Taxpayer that includes the effective date of the Blocker Exchange shall be deemed to end as of the close of such effective date. Notwithstanding the foregoing and for the avoidance of doubt, the term “Pre-Merger NOL” shall not include any Tax attribute of a Blocker that is used to offset Taxable income of such Blocker, if such offset is attributable to taxable periods (or portion thereof) ending on or prior to the date of the Blocker Exchange.

Realized Tax Benefit” means, for a Taxable Year, the excess, if any, of the Hypothetical Tax Liability over the Actual Tax Liability of (i) the Corporate Taxpayer and (ii) without duplication, OpCo (and OpCo’s applicable Subsidiaries), but only with respect to Taxes imposed on OpCo (and OpCo’s applicable Subsidiaries) that are allocable to the Corporate Taxpayer under Section 704 of the Code and/or the Partnership Audit Rules. If all or a portion of the Actual Tax Liability for the Taxable Year arises as a result of an audit by a Taxing Authority of any Taxable Year, such liability shall not be included in determining the Realized Tax Benefit unless and until there has been a Determination.

Realized Tax Detriment” means, for a Taxable Year, the excess, if any, of the Actual Tax Liability over the Hypothetical Tax Liability of (i) the Corporate Taxpayer and (ii) without duplication, OpCo (and OpCo’s applicable Subsidiaries), but only with respect to Taxes imposed on OpCo (and OpCo’s applicable Subsidiaries) that are allocable to the Corporate Taxpayer under Section 704 of the Code and/or the Partnership Audit Rules. If all or a portion of the Actual Tax Liability for the Taxable Year arises as a result of an audit by a Taxing Authority of any Taxable Year, such liability shall not be included in determining the Realized Tax Detriment unless and until there has been a Determination.

Reconciliation Dispute” has the meaning set forth in Section 7.9 of this Agreement.

Reconciliation Procedures” has the meaning set forth in Section 2.3(a) of this Agreement.

Reference Property” means property (as determined for U.S. federal income tax purposes) that is held by OpCo, or by any of its direct or indirect Subsidiaries treated as a partnership or disregarded entity (but only to the extent such indirect Subsidiaries are held through Subsidiaries treated as partnerships or disregarded entities) for purposes of the applicable Tax, at the time of an Exchange. Reference Property also includes any property that is “substituted basis property” under Section 7701(a)(42) of the Code with respect to Reference Property. For the avoidance of doubt, Reference Property does not include property held directly or indirectly by a Subsidiary treated as a corporation for U.S. federal income tax purposes.

 

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Relevant Governmental Body” means the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System or the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, or a committee officially endorsed or convened by the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System or the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, or any successor thereto.

Schedule” means any of the following: (i) a Basis Schedule; (ii) a Tax Benefit Schedule; or (iii) the Early Termination Schedule.

Section 734(b) Exchange” means any Exchange that results in a Basis Adjustment under Section 734(b) of the Code.

Senior Obligations” has the meaning set forth in Section 5.1 of this Agreement.

Sharing Percentage” has the meaning set forth in Section 3.1(c) of this Agreement.

SOFRwith respect to any Business Day means the secured overnight financing rate published for such day by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, as the administrator of the benchmark (or a successor administrator) on the Federal Reserve Bank of New York’s website (or any successor source) at approximately 8:00 a.m. (New York City time) on the immediately succeeding Business Day and, in each case, that has been selected or recommended by the Relevant Governmental Body.

Subsidiaries” means, with respect to any Person, as of any date of determination, any other Person as to which such Person, owns, directly or indirectly, or otherwise controls more than 50% of the voting power or other similar interests or the sole general partner interest or managing member or similar interest of such Person.

Subsidiary Stock” means stock or other equity interest in a Subsidiary of OpCo that is treated as a corporation for U.S. federal income tax purposes.

Tax Attributes” has the meaning set forth in the Recitals of this Agreement.

Tax Benefit Payment” has the meaning set forth in Section 3.1(b) of this Agreement.

Tax Benefit Schedule” has the meaning set forth in Section 2.2 of this Agreement.

Tax Return” means any return, declaration, report or similar statement filed or required to be filed with respect to Taxes (including any attached schedules), including, without limitation, any information return, claim for refund, amended return and declaration of estimated Tax.

Taxable Year” means a taxable year of the Corporate Taxpayer as defined in Section 441(b) of the Code or comparable section of state or local Tax law, as applicable (and, therefore, for the avoidance of doubt, may include a period of less than twelve (12) months for which a Tax Return is made), ending on or after the IPO Date.

 

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Taxes” means any and all United States federal, state, and local taxes, assessments or similar charges that are based on or measured with respect to net income or profits, and any interest related to such Tax.

Taxing Authority” means any domestic, federal, national, state, county or municipal or other local government, any subdivision, agency, commission or authority thereof, or any quasi-governmental body exercising any taxing authority or any other authority exercising Tax regulatory authority.

TRA Bonus Agreement” means those certain bonus agreements entered into on or about the date hereof with the Eligible Executive Officers pursuant to which such person are entitled to bonus payments calculated by reference to the payments made to the TRA Parties hereunder.

TRA Bonus Amount” has the meaning set forth in Section 3.1(c) of this Agreement.

“TRA Bonus Deductions” has the meaning set forth in the Recitals to this Agreement.

TRA Party” has the meaning set forth in the Preamble to this Agreement.

TRA Party Representative” means the WCAS Representative.

Treasury Regulations” means the final, temporary and proposed regulations under the Code promulgated from time to time (including corresponding provisions and succeeding provisions) as in effect for the relevant taxable period.

Units” has the meaning set forth in the Recitals of this Agreement.

Upper-Tier Partnership” means any entity treated as a partnership for United States federal income Tax purposes that directly, or indirectly through one or more entities treated as partnerships for United States federal income Tax purposes holds a partnership interest in OpCo.

Valuation Assumptions” shall mean, as of an Early Termination Date, the assumptions that in each Taxable Year ending on or after such Early Termination Date, (1) the Corporate Taxpayer will have taxable income sufficient to fully utilize the Tax items arising from the Tax Attributes (other than any items addressed in clause (2) below) during such Taxable Year or future Taxable Years (including, for the avoidance of doubt, Basis Adjustments and Imputed Interest that would result from future payments made under this Agreement that would be paid in accordance with the Valuation Assumptions) in which such deductions would become available, (2) Pre-Merger NOLs and loss carryovers generated by deductions arising from any Tax Attributes or Imputed Interest that are available as of the date of such Early Termination Date will be used by the Corporate Taxpayer on a pro rata basis from the date of such Early Termination Date through the earlier of (x) the scheduled expiration date under applicable Tax law of such loss carryovers or (y) the fifth (5th) anniversary of the Early Termination Date, (3) the United States federal income tax rates that will be in effect for each such Taxable Year will be those specified for each such Taxable Year by the Code and the Assumed State and Local Tax Rate will be

 

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calculated by reference to the rates in effect under other law, and the apportionment factor applicable in the Taxable Year of the Early Termination Date as reasonably determined by the Corporate Taxpayer, (4) any non-amortizable assets (other than any Subsidiary Stock) will be disposed of on the fifteenth (15th) anniversary of the applicable Exchange and any cash equivalents will be disposed of twelve (12) months following the Early Termination Date, unless such date has passed in which case such assets will be deemed disposed of on the fifth (5th) anniversary of the Early Termination Date; provided, that in the event of a Change of Control, such non-amortizable assets shall be deemed disposed of at the time of sale (if applicable) of the relevant asset in the Change of Control (if earlier than such fifteenth (15th) anniversary), (5) any Subsidiary Stock will not be deemed to be disposed unless actually disposed, and (6) if, at the Early Termination Date, there are Units that have not been Exchanged, then each such Unit shall be deemed Exchanged for the Market Value of the Class A Shares or Class D Shares that would be transferred if the Exchange occurred on the Early Termination Date.

Warburg Blocker” means WP CA Blocker, Inc.

Warburg Parties” shall mean the persons identified as Warburg Parties in Exhibit B.

Warburg Representative” means the person identified as the Warburg Representative in Exhibit B.

WCAS XII Blocker” means WCAS XII Carbon Blocker LLC

WCAS XIII Blocker” means WCAS XIII Carbon Blocker LLC

WCAS Parties” shall mean the persons identified as WCAS Parties in Exhibit B.

WCAS Representative” means the person identified as the WCAS Representative in Exhibit B.

ARTICLE II

DETERMINATION OF CERTAIN REALIZED TAX BENEFIT

Section 2.1 Basis Schedule. Within one hundred and twenty (120) calendar days after the due date (including extensions) of IRS Form 1120 (or any successor form) of the Corporate Taxpayer for each relevant Taxable Year, the Corporate Taxpayer shall, on the same date, deliver to (a) the TRA Party Representative a schedule (the “Basis Schedule”) that shows, in reasonable detail necessary to perform the calculations required by this Agreement, (i) the Blocker Transferred Basis of the Reference Property with respect to each Blocker and in respect of each TRA Party, if any, (ii) the Non-Stepped Up Tax Basis of the Reference Property in respect of each TRA Party as of each applicable Exchange Date, if any, (iii) the Basis Adjustment with respect to the Reference Property in respect of each TRA Party as a result of the Exchanges effected in such Taxable Year or any prior Taxable Year by each TRA Party, if any, calculated in the aggregate, (iv) the period (or periods) over which the Blocker Transferred Basis with respect to each Blocker and each Basis Adjustment in respect of each TRA Party is amortizable and/or depreciable (or otherwise deductible or available as an offset against taxable income), and (iv) the TRA Bonus

 

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Deduction, calculated in the aggregate (b) the Permira Representative, the portion of such Basis Schedule relating to the Permira Parties in respect of the Permira Blocker and the WCAS XII Blocker, (c) the Warburg Representative, the portion of such Basis Schedule relating to the Warburg Parties in respect of the Warburg Blocker and the WCAS XII Blocker and (d) the WCAS Representative, the portion of such Basis Schedule relating to the WCAS Parties in respect of WCAS XII Blocker and WCAS XIII Blocker, respectively. All costs and expenses incurred in connection with the provision and preparation of the Basis Schedules and Tax Benefit Schedules under this Agreement shall be borne by OpCo.

Section 2.2 Tax Benefit Schedule.

(a) Tax Benefit Schedule. Within one hundred and twenty (120) calendar days after the due date (including extensions) of IRS Form 1120 (or any successor form) of the Corporate Taxpayer for any Taxable Year in which there is a Realized Tax Benefit or a Realized Tax Detriment Attributable to a TRA Party, the Corporate Taxpayer shall, on the same date, provide to (i) the TRA Party Representative a schedule showing, in reasonable detail, the calculation of (x) the Realized Tax Benefit and Tax Benefit Payment, or the Realized Tax Detriment, as applicable, in respect of such TRA Party for such Taxable Year, (y) the TRA Bonus Amount payable in respect of all amounts payable with respect to such Taxable Year and the TRA Bonus Deduction, and (z) the Sharing Percentage with respect to each TRA Party and the amount of all adjustments under Section 3.1(c) with respect to such TRA Party (a “Tax Benefit Schedule”), (ii) the Permira Representative, the portion of such Tax Benefit Schedule relating to the Permira Parties in respect to the Permira Blocker and the WCAS XII Blocker and (iii) the Warburg Representative, the portion of such Tax Benefit Schedule relating to the Warburg Parties in respect to the Warburg Blocker and the WCAS XII Blocker.

(b) Applicable Principles.

(i) General. Subject to Section 3.3, the Realized Tax Benefit (or the Realized Tax Detriment) for each Taxable Year is intended to measure the actual decrease (or increase) in the liability for Taxes of the Corporate Taxpayer for such Taxable Year attributable to the Tax Attributes, determined using a “with and without” methodology. Carryovers or carrybacks of any Tax item attributable to any of the Tax Attributes shall be considered to be subject to the rules of the Code and the Treasury Regulations governing the use, limitation and expiration of carryovers or carrybacks of the relevant type. If a carryover or carryback of any Tax item includes a portion that is attributable to any Tax Attribute and another portion that is not, such portions shall be considered to be used in accordance with the “with and without” methodology. The parties agree that (A) all Tax Benefit Payments (other than the portion of the Tax Benefit Payments treated as Imputed Interest) attributable to the Basis Adjustments will, except in the case of a Blocker Exchange, be treated as subsequent upward purchase price adjustments that have the effect of creating additional Basis Adjustments to Reference Property for the Corporate Taxpayer in the year of payment to the extent permitted by applicable law (as determined in good faith by the Corporate Taxpayer), (B) as a result, such additional Basis Adjustments will be incorporated into the current year calculation and into future year calculations, as appropriate, and (C) the Actual Tax Liability will take into account the deduction of the portion of the Tax Benefit Payment that must be accounted for as Imputed Interest.

 

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(ii) Applicable Principles of Section 734(b) Exchanges. Notwithstanding any provisions to the contrary in this Agreement, the foregoing treatment set out in the last sentence of Section 2.2(b)(i) shall not be required to apply to payments hereunder to an Exchanging Holder in respect of a Section 734(b) Exchange by such Exchanging Holder. For the avoidance of doubt, payments made under this Agreement relating to a Section 734(b) Exchange shall not be treated as resulting in a Basis Adjustment to the extent such payments are treated as Imputed Interest. The parties intend that (A) an Exchanging Holder that has made a Section 734(b) Exchange shall, with respect to the Basis Adjustment resulting from such Section 734(b) Exchange or any payments hereunder in respect of such Section 734(b) Exchange, be entitled to Tax Benefit Payments attributable to such Basis Adjustments only to the extent such Basis Adjustments are allocable to the Corporate Taxpayer following such Section 734(b) Exchange (without taking into account any concurrent or subsequent Exchanges) and (B) if, as a result of a subsequent Exchange, an increased portion of the Basis Adjustments resulting from such Section 734(b) Exchange or any payments hereunder in respect of such Section 734(b) Exchange becomes allocable to the Corporate Taxpayer, then the LLC Unit Holder that makes such subsequent Exchange shall be entitled to a Tax Benefit Payment calculated in respect of such increased portion.

Section 2.3 Procedures, Amendments.

(a) Procedure. Every time the Corporate Taxpayer delivers to the TRA Party Representative an applicable Schedule under this Agreement, including any Amended Schedule delivered pursuant to Section 2.3(b), and any Early Termination Schedule or amended Early Termination Schedule, the Corporate Taxpayer shall also (i) deliver to the TRA Party Representative supporting schedules and work papers, as determined by the Corporate Taxpayer or as reasonably requested by the TRA Party Representative, providing reasonable detail regarding data and calculations that were relevant for purposes of preparing the Schedule, (ii) deliver to the Permira Representative the portion of the materials described in clause (i) above to the extent related to the Permira Parties (including, for the avoidance of doubt, with respect to the WCAS XII Blocker), (iii) deliver to the Warburg Representative the portion of the materials described in clause (i) above to the extent related to the Warburg Parties (including, for the avoidance of doubt, with respect to the WCAS XII Blocker) and (iv) allow the TRA Party Representative, the Permira Representative and the Warburg Representative reasonable access at no cost to the appropriate representatives at the Corporate Taxpayer, as determined by the Corporate Taxpayer or as reasonably requested by the TRA Party Representative, the Permira Representative or the Warburg Representative, in connection with a review of such Schedule (or, in the case of the Permira Representative or Warburg Representative, the portion of such Schedule relating to the Permira Parties or Warburg Parties, as applicable, including, for the avoidance of doubt, with respect to the WCAS XII Blocker). Without limiting the generality of the preceding sentence, the Corporate Taxpayer shall ensure that any Tax Benefit Schedule that is delivered to the TRA Party Representative (and the portion of any such Schedule delivered to the Permira Representative or the Warburg Representative), along with any supporting schedules and work papers, provides a reasonably detailed presentation of the calculation of the Actual Tax Liability, the Hypothetical Tax Liability and the aggregate TRA Bonus Amount and identifies any material assumptions or operating procedures or principles that were used for purposes of such calculations. An applicable Schedule or amendment thereto shall become final and binding on all parties thirty (30) calendar days from the date on which the TRA Party Representative is treated as having received the applicable Schedule or amendment thereto under Section 7.1 unless the TRA Party Representative

 

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(i) within thirty (30) calendar days from such date provides the Corporate Taxpayer with written notice of a material objection to such Schedule (“Objection Notice”) made in good faith or (ii) provides a written waiver of such right of any Objection Notice within the period described in clause (i) above, in which case such Schedule or amendment thereto becomes binding on the date the waiver is received by the Corporate Taxpayer; provided, that the TRA Party Representative shall consult in good faith with the Permira Representative regarding any objections to such Schedule by the Permira Representative to the extent related to the Permira Parties (including, for the avoidance of doubt, with respect to the WCAS XII Blocker), and with the Warburg Representative regarding any objections to such Schedule by the Warburg Representative to the extent related to the Warburg Parties (including, for the avoidance of doubt, with respect to and the WCAS XII Blocker), and shall include all reasonable material objections of the Permira Representative or the Warburg Representative in an Objection Notice. If the Corporate Taxpayer and the TRA Party Representative, for any reason, are unable to successfully resolve the issues raised in the Objection Notice within thirty (30) calendar days after receipt by the Corporate Taxpayer of an Objection Notice, the Corporate Taxpayer and the TRA Party Representative shall employ the reconciliation procedures as described in Section 7.9 of this Agreement (the “Reconciliation Procedures”).

(b) Amended Schedule. The applicable Schedule for any Taxable Year may be amended from time to time by the Corporate Taxpayer (i) in connection with a Determination affecting such Schedule, (ii) to correct material inaccuracies in the Schedule identified as a result of the receipt of additional factual information relating to a Taxable Year after the date the Schedule was provided to the TRA Party Representative, (iii) to comply with an Expert’s determination under the Reconciliation Procedures, (iv) to reflect a change in the Realized Tax Benefit, or the Realized Tax Detriment for such Taxable Year attributable to a carryback or carryforward of a loss or other Tax item to such Taxable Year, (v) to reflect a change in the Realized Tax Benefit or the Realized Tax Detriment for such Taxable Year attributable to an amended Tax Return filed for such Taxable Year or (vi) to adjust an applicable TRA Party’s Basis Schedule to take into account payments made pursuant to this Agreement (any such Schedule, an “Amended Schedule”). The Corporate Taxpayer shall provide (A) an Amended Schedule to the TRA Party Representative, (B) the portion of such Amended Schedule that relates to the Permira Parties (including, for the avoidance of doubt, with respect to the WCAS XII Blocker) to the Permira Representative, and (C) the portion of such Amended Schedule that relates to the Warburg Parties (including, for the avoidance of doubt, with respect to the WCAS XII Blocker) to the Warburg Representative, in each case, when the Corporate Taxpayer delivers the Basis Schedule for the following taxable year.

ARTICLE III

TAX BENEFIT PAYMENTS

Section 3.1 Payments.

(a) Payments. Within five (5) Business Days after a Tax Benefit Schedule delivered to the TRA Party Representative becomes final in accordance with Section 2.3(a) and Section 7.9, if applicable, the Corporate Taxpayer shall pay to each TRA Party for such Taxable Year the Tax Benefit Payment determined pursuant to Section 3.1(b) that is Attributable to each

 

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TRA Party as adjusted pursuant to Section 3.1(c). Each Tax Benefit Payment made to a TRA Party pursuant to this Section 3.1(a) shall be made by wire transfer of immediately available funds to the bank account previously designated by such TRA Party to the Corporate Taxpayer or as otherwise agreed by the Corporate Taxpayer and such TRA Party. For the avoidance of doubt, (x) no Tax Benefit Payment (or payment under a TRA Bonus Agreement) shall be made in respect of estimated Tax payments, including, without limitation, United States federal estimated income Tax payments and (y) payments of the TRA Bonus Amounts shall be made pursuant to the terms of the TRA Bonus Agreements (and not pursuant to this Agreement).

(b) A “Tax Benefit Payment” in respect of a TRA Party for a Taxable Year means an amount, not less than zero, equal to the Net Tax Benefit that is Attributable to such TRA Party and the Interest Amount with respect thereto, as further adjusted pursuant to Section 3.1(c). For the avoidance of doubt, for tax purposes, the Interest Amount shall not be treated as interest, but instead, shall be treated as additional consideration in the applicable transaction, unless otherwise required by law. Subject to Section 3.3, the “Net Tax Benefit” for a Taxable Year shall be an amount equal to the excess, if any, of 85% of the Cumulative Net Realized Tax Benefit as of the end of such Taxable Year, over the total amount of payments previously made under the first sentence of Section 3.1(a) or that would have been made if no adjustments were made under Section 3.1(c) (excluding payments attributable to Interest Amounts); provided, for the avoidance of doubt, that no such recipient shall be required to return any portion of any previously made Tax Benefit Payment. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Agreement, the parties acknowledge and agree that the determination of the portion of the Tax Benefit Payment to be paid to a TRA Party under this Agreement with respect to state and local taxes shall not require separate “with and without” calculations in respect of each applicable state and local tax jurisdiction but rather will be based on the United States federal taxable income or gain for such taxable year reported on the Corporate Taxpayer’s IRS Form 1120 (or any successor form) and the Assumed Sales and Local Tax Rate. The “Interest Amount” shall equal the interest on the Net Tax Benefit calculated at the Agreed Rate from the due date (without extensions) for filing IRS Form 1120 (or any successor form) of the Corporate Taxpayer with respect to Taxes for such Taxable Year until the payment date under Section 3.1(a). Notwithstanding the foregoing, for each Taxable Year ending on or after the date of a Change of Control that occurs after the IPO Date, all Tax Benefit Payments shall be calculated by utilizing Valuation Assumptions (1), (2), (4) and (5), substituting in each case the terms “date of a Change of Control” for an “Early Termination Date.”

(c) Reduction for TRA Bonus Amount; Sharing Percentages; Equitable Adjustments. Each TRA Party’s Tax Benefit Payment for any Taxable Year shall be reduced by such TRA Party’s Sharing Percentage of the TRA Bonus Amount (if any) with respect to such Taxable Year. The “TRA Bonus Amount” for any Taxable Year means an aggregate amount, not less than zero, equal to the sum of (A) the product of (x) the total Net Tax Benefit with respect to such Taxable Year Attributable to all TRA Parties and (y) the then-applicable Eligible EO Percentage plus (B) an amount equal to the Interest Amount that would have accrued had such payment been made to a TRA Party. The “Sharing Percentage” of any TRA Party for a Taxable Year is equal to 100% multiplied by a fraction, the numerator of which is the portion of the Net Tax Benefit Attributable to such TRA Party with respect to such Taxable Year, and the denominator of which is the total Net Tax Benefit of all TRA Parties calculated with respect to such Taxable Year, in each case prior to adjustment under this Section 3.1(c). The TRA Parties and the Corporate Taxpayer intend that as among the TRA Parties, the cumulative burden of the

 

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TRA Bonus Amount shall be shared in proportion to the Net Tax Benefit Attributable to such TRA Parties that gives rise to payments hereunder. Therefore, if required to carry out such intention, the Tax Benefit Payment of any TRA Party may be further equitably adjusted by the Corporate Taxpayer in consultation with the TRA Party Representative such that the aggregate burden of the cumulative TRA Bonus Amount for all periods is borne by the TRA Parties in proportion to the Tax Attributes Attributable to each such TRA Parties that have given rise to cumulative Net Tax Benefit with respect to such TRA Party hereunder.

Section 3.2 No Duplicative Payments. It is intended that the provisions of this Agreement will not result in duplicative payment of any amount (including interest) required under this Agreement. The provisions of this Agreement shall be construed in the appropriate manner to ensure such intentions are realized.

Section 3.3 Pro Rata Payments. Notwithstanding anything in Section 3.1 to the contrary, to the extent that the aggregate Realized Tax Benefit of the Corporate Taxpayer with respect to the Tax Attributes is limited in a particular Taxable Year because the Corporate Taxpayer does not have sufficient taxable income, the Net Tax Benefit of the Corporate Taxpayer shall be allocated among all parties then eligible for Tax Benefit Payments under this Agreement in proportion to the amount of Net Tax Benefit that would have been Attributable to each such party if the Corporate Taxpayer had sufficient taxable income so that there were no such limitation. To the extent any part of the limitation on the Realized Tax Benefit is allocated in a manner that differs from the order prescribed in the applicable rules of the Code and the Treasury Regulations regarding the utilization, or deemed utilization, of such Tax items, appropriate adjustments, consistent with the principles of this Section 3.3, shall be made in future Taxable Years to take into account such differing allocation.

Section 3.4 Payment Ordering. If for any reason the Corporate Taxpayer does not fully satisfy its payment obligations to make all Tax Benefit Payments due under this Agreement in respect of a particular Taxable Year, then the Corporate Taxpayer and the TRA Parties agree that (i) Tax Benefit Payments for such Taxable Year shall be allocated to all parties then eligible for Tax Benefit Payments under this Agreement in proportion to the payments that would have been made to each TRA Party if the Corporate Taxpayer had sufficient cash available to make such payments (taking into account the operation of Section 3.3) and the TRA Bonus Amount payable as a result thereof and (ii) no Tax Benefit Payments or payments under the TRA Bonus Agreements shall be made in respect of any Taxable Year until all Tax Benefit Payments to all TRA Parties and, to the extent required under the terms thereof, under all TRA Bonus Agreements of Eligible Executive Officers in respect of all prior Taxable Years have been made in full.

Section 3.5 Excess Payments. To the extent the Corporate Taxpayer makes a payment to a TRA Party in respect of a particular Taxable Year under Section 3.1(a) of this Agreement (taking into account Section 3.3 and Section 3.4) in an amount in excess of the amount of such payment that should have been made to such TRA Party in respect of such Taxable Year, then (a) such TRA Party shall not receive further payments under Section 3.1(a) until such TRA Party has foregone an amount of payments equal to such excess and (b) the Corporate Taxpayer will pay the amount of such TRA Party’s foregone payments to the other Persons to whom a payment is due under this Agreement in a manner such that each such Person to whom a payment is due under this Agreement, to the maximum extent possible, receives aggregate payments under Section 3.1(a) (taking into account Section 3.3 and Section 3.4) in the amount it would have received if there had been no excess payment to such TRA Party.

 

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ARTICLE IV

TERMINATION

Section 4.1 Early Termination of Agreement; Breach of Agreement.

(a) With the written approval of a majority of the Board’s Independent Directors, the Corporate Taxpayer may terminate this Agreement with respect to all amounts payable to the TRA Parties and with respect to all of the Units held by the TRA Parties paying to each TRA Party the Early Termination Payment in respect of such TRA Party; provided, however, that this Agreement shall only terminate upon the receipt of the Early Termination Payment by all TRA Parties, and provided, further, that the Corporate Taxpayer may withdraw any notice to execute its termination rights under this Section 4.1(a) prior to the time at which any Early Termination Payment has been paid. Upon payment of the Early Termination Payment by the Corporate Taxpayer, none of the TRA Parties or the Corporate Taxpayer shall have any further payment obligations under this Agreement, other than for any (i) Tax Benefit Payments due and payable and that remain unpaid as of the Early Termination Notice and (ii) Tax Benefit Payment due for the Taxable Year ending with or including the date of the Early Termination Notice (except to the extent that the amount described in clause (ii) is included in the Early Termination Payment). If an Exchange occurs after the Corporate Taxpayer makes all of the required Early Termination Payments, the Corporate Taxpayer shall have no obligations under this Agreement with respect to such Exchange.

(b) In the event that the Corporate Taxpayer (i) breaches any of its material obligations under this Agreement, whether as a result of failure to make any payment when due failure to honor any other material obligation required hereunder or by operation of law as a result of the rejection of this Agreement in a case commenced under the Bankruptcy Code or otherwise or (ii)(A) shall commence any case, proceeding or other action (I) under any existing or future law of any jurisdiction, domestic or foreign, relating to bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization or relief of debtors, seeking to have an order for relief entered with respect to it, or seeking to adjudicate a bankruptcy or insolvency, or seeking reorganization, arrangement, adjustment, winding-up, liquidation, dissolution, composition or other relief with respect to it or its debts or (II) seeking an appointment of a receiver, trustee, custodian, conservator or other similar official for it or for all or any substantial part of its assets, or it shall make a general assignment for the benefit of creditors or (B) there shall be commenced against the Corporate Taxpayer any case, proceeding or other action of the nature referred to in clause (A) above that remains undismissed or undischarged for a period of sixty (60) calendar days, all obligations hereunder shall be automatically accelerated and shall be immediately due and payable, and such obligations shall be calculated as if an Early Termination Notice had been delivered on the date of such breach and shall include, but not be limited to, (1) the Early Termination Payments calculated as if an Early Termination Notice had been delivered on the date of a breach, (2) any Tax Benefit Payment due and payable and that remains unpaid as of the date of a breach, and (3) any Tax Benefit Payment in respect of any TRA Party due for the Taxable Year ending with or including the date of a breach; provided that procedures similar to the procedures of Section 4.2 shall apply with respect to the determination

 

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of the amount payable by the Corporate Taxpayer pursuant to this sentence. Notwithstanding the foregoing (other than as set forth in subsection (2) above), in the event that the Corporate Taxpayer breaches this Agreement, each TRA Party shall be entitled to elect to receive the amounts set forth in clauses (1), (2) and (3) above or to seek specific performance of the terms hereof. The parties agree that the failure to make any payment due pursuant to this Agreement within three (3) months of the date such payment is due shall be deemed to be a breach of a material obligation under this Agreement for all purposes of this Agreement, and that it will not be considered to be a breach of a material obligation under this Agreement to make a payment due pursuant to this Agreement within three (3) months of the date such payment is due. Notwithstanding anything in this Agreement to the contrary, it shall not be a breach of a material obligation of this Agreement if (A) the Corporate Taxpayer fails to make any Tax Benefit Payment when due to the extent that the Corporate Taxpayer has insufficient funds to make such payment; provided, (x) the Corporate Taxpayer has used reasonable efforts to obtain such funds and (y) that the interest provisions of Section 5.2 shall apply to such late payment (unless the Corporate Taxpayer does not have sufficient funds to make such payment as a result of limitations imposed by any Senior Obligations, in which case Section 5.2 shall not apply) or (B) fails to make any payment under or breaches any term of a TRA Bonus Agreement; provided further, for the avoidance of doubt, the last sentence of this Section 4.1(b) shall not apply to any payments due pursuant to an election by a TRA Party for the acceleration upon a Change of Control contemplated by Section 4.1(c).

(c) In the event of a Change of Control, all payment obligations hereunder shall be accelerated and such obligations shall be calculated as if an Early Termination Notice had been delivered on the closing date of the Change of Control and shall include, but not be limited to the following: (i) payment of the Early Termination Payment calculated as if an Early Termination Notice had been delivered on the effective date of a Change of Control, (ii) payment of any Tax Benefit Payment previously due and payable but unpaid as of the Early Termination Notice, and (iii) except to the extent included in the Early Termination Payment or if included as a payment under clause (ii) of this Section 4.1(c), payment of any Tax Benefit Payment due for any Taxable Year ending prior to, with or including the effective date of a Change of Control. In the event of a Change of Control, the Early Termination Payment shall be calculated utilizing the Valuation Assumptions and by substituting in each case the terms “the closing date of a Change of Control” for an “Early Termination Date.”

Section 4.2 Early Termination Notice. If the Corporate Taxpayer chooses to exercise its right of early termination under Section 4.1 above, the Corporate Taxpayer shall deliver to the TRA Party Representative notice of such intention to exercise such right (“Early Termination Notice”) and a schedule (the “Early Termination Schedule”) specifying the Corporate Taxpayer’s intention to exercise such right and showing in reasonable detail the calculation of the Early Termination Payment(s) due for each TRA Party and the TRA Bonus Amount in respect thereof. On the same date as the delivery of the Early Termination Notice and the Early Termination Schedule to the TRA Party Representative pursuant to this Section 4.2, the Corporate Taxpayer shall deliver to the Permira Representative an Early Termination Notice and such portion of the Early Termination Schedule that relates to the Permira Parties (including, for the avoidance of doubt, with respect to the WCAS XII Blocker), and the Corporate Taxpayer shall deliver to the Warburg Representative an Early Termination Notice and such portion of the Early Termination Schedule that relates to the Warburg Parties (including, for the avoidance of doubt, with respect to the WCAS XII Blocker). Each Early Termination Schedule shall become final and binding on all

 

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parties thirty (30) calendar days from the first date on which the TRA Party Representative is treated as having received such Schedule or amendment thereto under Section 7.1 unless the TRA Party Representative (a) within thirty (30) calendar days after such date provides the Corporate Taxpayer with notice of a material objection to such Schedule made in good faith (“Material Objection Notice”) or (b) provides a written waiver of such right of a Material Objection Notice within the period described in clause (a) above, in which case such Schedule becomes binding on the date the waiver is received by the Corporate Taxpayer; provided, that the TRA Party Representative shall consult in good faith with the Permira Representative regarding any objections to such Schedule by the Permira Representative to the extent related to the Permira Parties (including, for the avoidance of doubt, with respect to the WCAS XII Blocker), and with the Warburg Representative regarding any objections to such Schedule by the Warburg Representative to the extent related to the Warburg Parties (including, for the avoidance of doubt, with respect to and the WCAS XII Blocker), and shall include all reasonable material objections of the Permira Representative or the Warburg Representative in a Material Objection Notice. If the Corporate Taxpayer and the TRA Party Representative, for any reason, are unable to successfully resolve the issues raised in such notice within thirty (30) calendar days after receipt by the Corporate Taxpayer of the Material Objection Notice, the Corporate Taxpayer and the TRA Party Representative shall employ the Reconciliation Procedures in which case such Schedule becomes binding ten (10) calendar days after the conclusion of the Reconciliation Procedures.

Section 4.3 Payment upon Early Termination.

(a) Within three (3) calendar days after an Early Termination Effective Date, the Corporate Taxpayer shall pay to each TRA Party an amount equal to the Early Termination Payment in respect of such TRA Party. Such payment shall be made by wire transfer of immediately available funds to a bank account or accounts designated by such TRA Party or as otherwise agreed by the Corporate Taxpayer and such TRA Party or, in the absence of such designation or agreement, by check mailed to the last mailing address provided by such TRA Party to the Corporate Taxpayer.

(b) “Early Termination Payment” in respect of a TRA Party shall equal the present value, discounted at the Early Termination Rate as of the applicable Early Termination Effective Date, of all Tax Benefit Payments in respect of such TRA Party that would be required to be paid by the Corporate Taxpayer beginning from the Early Termination Date and assuming that the Valuation Assumptions in respect of such TRA Party are applied and that each Tax Benefit Payment for the relevant Taxable Year would be due and payable on the due date (without extensions) under applicable law as of the Early Termination Effective Date for filing of IRS Form 1120 (or any successor form) of the Corporate Taxpayer, which, for the avoidance of doubt, shall be reduced under the principles of Section 3.1(c) (mutatis mutandis) by TRA Bonus Amount that would be payable to Eligible Executive Officers based on the same assumptions, and further assuming that each person that is an Eligible Executive Officer on the Early Termination Effective Date remains an Eligible Executive Officer each relevant future date.

 

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ARTICLE V

SUBORDINATION AND LATE PAYMENTS

Section 5.1 Subordination. Notwithstanding any other provision of this Agreement to the contrary, any payments required to be made by the Corporate Taxpayer to the TRA Parties under this Agreement shall rank subordinate and junior in right of payment to any principal, interest or other amounts due and payable in respect of any obligations in respect of indebtedness for borrowed money of the Corporate Taxpayer and its Subsidiaries (“Senior Obligations”) and shall rank pari passu in right of payment with all current or future unsecured obligations of the Corporate Taxpayer that are not Senior Obligations. To the extent that any payment under this Agreement is not permitted to be made at the time payment is due as a result of this Section 5.1 and the terms of agreements governing Senior Obligations, such payment obligation nevertheless shall accrue for the benefit of TRA Parties and the Corporate Taxpayer shall make such payments at the first opportunity that such payments are permitted to be made in accordance with the terms of the Senior Obligations. Notwithstanding any other provision of this Agreement to the contrary, to the extent that the Corporate Taxpayer or any of its Affiliates enters into future Tax receivable or other similar agreements (“Future TRAs”), the Corporate Taxpayer shall ensure that the terms of any such Future TRA shall provide that the Tax Attributes subject to this Agreement are considered senior in priority to any Tax attributes subject to any such Future TRA for purposes of calculating the amount and timing of payments under any such Future TRA.

Section 5.2 Late Payments by the Corporate Taxpayer. Subject to the proviso in the last sentence of Section 4.1(b), the amount of all or any portion of any Tax Benefit Payment or Early Termination Payment not made to the TRA Parties when due under the terms of this Agreement, whether as a result of Section 5.1 or otherwise, shall be payable together with any interest thereon, computed at the Agreed Rate and commencing from the date on which such Tax Benefit Payment or Early Termination Payment was first due and payable to the date of actual payment.

ARTICLE VI

NO DISPUTES; CONSISTENCY; COOPERATION

Section 6.1 Participation in the Corporate Taxpayers and OpCos Tax Matters. Except as otherwise provided herein, the Corporate Taxpayer shall have full responsibility for, and sole discretion over, all Tax matters concerning the Corporate Taxpayer and OpCo, including without limitation the preparation, filing or amending of any Tax Return and defending, contesting or settling any issue pertaining to Taxes. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Corporate Taxpayer shall notify the TRA Party Representative of, and keep the TRA Party Representative reasonably informed with respect to, the portion of any audit of the Corporate Taxpayer and OpCo by a Taxing Authority the outcome of which is reasonably expected to materially affect the rights and obligations of the TRA Parties under this Agreement, and shall provide the TRA Party Representative reasonable opportunity to provide information and other input to the Corporate Taxpayer, OpCo and their respective advisors concerning the conduct of any such portion of such audit; provided, however, that the Corporate Taxpayer and OpCo shall not be required to take any action that is inconsistent with any provision of the LLC Agreement.

 

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Section 6.2 Consistency. The Corporate Taxpayer and the TRA Parties agree to report and cause to be reported for all purposes, including United States federal, state and local tax purposes and financial reporting purposes, all Tax-related items (including, without limitation, the Basis Adjustments and each Tax Benefit Payment) in a manner consistent with that (x) contemplated by this Agreement, (y) contemplated by any other Agreement entered into in connection with the IPO or (z) specified by the Corporate Taxpayer in any Schedule required to be provided by or on behalf of the Corporate Taxpayer under this Agreement unless otherwise required by law. The Corporate Taxpayer shall (and shall cause OpCo and its other Subsidiaries to) use commercially reasonable efforts (for the avoidance of doubt, taking into account the interests and entitlements of all TRA Parties under this Agreement) to defend the Tax treatment contemplated by this Agreement and any Schedule in any audit, contest or similar proceeding with any Taxing Authority.

Section 6.3 Cooperation. Each of the TRA Parties shall (a) furnish to the Corporate Taxpayer in a timely manner such information, documents and other materials in its possession as the Corporate Taxpayer may reasonably request for purposes of making any determination or computation necessary or appropriate under this Agreement, preparing any Tax Return or contesting or defending any audit, examination or controversy with any Taxing Authority, (b) make itself available to the Corporate Taxpayer and its representatives to provide explanations of documents and materials and such other information as the Corporate Taxpayer or its representatives may reasonably request in connection with any of the matters described in clause (a) above, and (c) reasonably cooperate in connection with any such matter, and the Corporate Taxpayer shall reimburse each such TRA Party for any reasonable and documented out-of-pocket costs and expenses incurred pursuant to this Section 6.3. Upon the request of any TRA Party, the Corporate Taxpayer shall cooperate in taking any action reasonably requested by such TRA Party in connection with its tax or financial reporting and/or the consummation of any assignment or transfer of any of its rights and/or obligations under this Agreement, including without limitation, providing any information or executing any documentation.

ARTICLE VII

MISCELLANEOUS

Section 7.1 Notices. All notices, requests, claims, demands and other communications hereunder shall be in writing and shall be deemed duly given and received (a) on the date of delivery if delivered personally, or by facsimile or email with confirmation of transmission by the transmitting equipment or (b) on the first Business Day following the date of dispatch if delivered by a recognized next-day courier service. All notices hereunder shall be delivered as set forth below, or pursuant to such other instructions as may be designated in writing by the party to receive such notice:

If to the Corporate Taxpayer, to:

Clearwater Analytics Holdings, Inc.

777 W. Main Street

Suite 900

Boise, Idaho 83702

Attention: Alphonse Valbrune, Chief Legal Officer

Email: *****

 

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If to the TRA Parties, to the respective addresses, fax numbers and email addresses set forth in the records of OpCo or the Corporate Taxpayer, as applicable.

Any party may change its address, fax number or email by giving the other party written notice of its new address, fax number or email in the manner set forth above.

Section 7.2 Counterparts. This Agreement may be executed in one or more counterparts, all of which shall be considered one and the same agreement and shall become effective when one or more counterparts have been signed by each of the parties and delivered to the other parties, it being understood that all parties need not sign the same counterpart. Delivery of an executed signature page to this Agreement by facsimile transmission shall be as effective as delivery of a manually signed counterpart of this Agreement.

Section 7.3 Entire Agreement; No Third Party Beneficiaries. This Agreement constitutes the entire agreement and supersedes all prior agreements and understandings, both written and oral, among the parties with respect to the subject matter hereof. This Agreement shall be binding upon and inure solely to the benefit of each party hereto and their respective successors and permitted assigns, and nothing in this Agreement, express or implied, is intended to or shall confer upon any other Person any right, benefit or remedy of any nature whatsoever under or by reason of this Agreement.

Section 7.4 Governing Law. This Agreement shall be governed by, and construed in accordance with, the laws of the State of Delaware, without giving effect to any choice of law or conflict of law rules or provisions (whether of the State of Delaware or any other jurisdiction) that would cause the application of the laws of any jurisdiction other than the State of Delaware.

Section 7.5 Severability. If any term or other provision of this Agreement is invalid, illegal or incapable of being enforced by any law or public policy, all other terms and provisions of this Agreement shall nevertheless remain in full force and effect so long as the economic or legal substance of the transactions contemplated hereby is not affected in any manner materially adverse to any party. Upon such determination that any term or other provision is invalid, illegal or incapable of being enforced, the parties hereto shall negotiate in good faith to modify this Agreement so as to effect the original intent of the parties as closely as possible in an acceptable manner in order that the transactions contemplated hereby are consummated as originally contemplated to the greatest extent possible.

Section 7.6 Successors; Assignment; Amendments; Waivers.

(a) Subject to the Corporate Taxpayer’s prior written consent (not to be unreasonably withheld, conditioned or delayed), each TRA Party may assign all or any portion of its rights under this Agreement to any Person as long as such transferee has executed and delivered, or, in connection with such transfer, executes and delivers, a joinder to this Agreement, substantially in the form of Exhibit A hereto, agreeing to become a TRA Party for all purposes of this Agreement, except as otherwise provided in such joinder (a “Joinder”). For avoidance of doubt, this Section 7.6(a) shall apply regardless of whether such TRA Party continues to hold any

 

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interest in the Corporate Taxpayer. For the avoidance of doubt, (i) if a TRA Party transfers Units in accordance with the terms of the LLC Agreement but does not assign to the transferee of such Units its rights under this Agreement with respect to such transferred Units, such TRA Party shall continue to be entitled to receive the Tax Benefit Payments arising in respect of a subsequent Exchange of such Units and (ii) an assignment to any entity controlled by a TRA Party shall be treated as one transfer (or an assignment to an Affiliate, if applicable) for purposes of this Section 7.6(a), even if the interests in such entity are subsequently transferred or distributed to third parties. Any assignment, or attempted assignment in violation of this Agreement, including any failure of a purported assignee to enter into a Joinder or to provide any forms or other information to the extent required hereunder, shall be null and void, and shall not bind or be recognized by the Corporate Taxpayer or the TRA Parties. The Corporate Taxpayer shall be entitled to treat the record owner of any rights under this Agreement as the absolute owner thereof and shall incur no liability for payments made in good faith to such owner until such time as a written assignment of such rights is permitted pursuant to the terms and conditions of this Section 7.6(a) and has been recorded on the books of the Corporate Taxpayer.

(b) Each TRA Party hereby unconditionally and irrevocably grants to the Corporate Taxpayer (or its successors) a right of first refusal, but not an obligation, to purchase all or a portion of such TRA Party’s rights under this agreement that such TRA Party may propose to transfer pursuant to Section 7.6(a), at the same price and on the same terms and conditions as those offered to the prospective transferee. The TRA Party shall provide the Corporate Taxpayer 10 Business Days to elect to accept such offer, and if the Corporate Taxpayer does not accept such offer by 5:00 p.m., Eastern time, on the tenth business day, such TRA Party may transfer its rights under this agreement pursuant to Section 7.6(a) upon such terms, which transfer must occur within the 60 days following such tenth business day without requiring the TRA Party to offer the Corporate Taxpayer another opportunity to purchase such rights prior to such transfer.

(c) No provision of this Agreement may be amended unless such amendment is approved in writing by each of the Corporate Taxpayer and by the TRA Party Representative; provided, that no such amendment shall be effective if such amendment will have a disproportionate effect on the payments one or more TRA Parties receive under this Agreement unless such amendment is consented in writing by such TRA Parties disproportionately affected who would be entitled to receive at least a majority of the total amount of the Early Termination Payments payable to all TRA Parties disproportionately affected hereunder if the Corporate Taxpayer had exercised its right of early termination on the date of the most recent Exchange prior to such amendment (excluding, for purposes of this sentence, all payments made to any TRA Party pursuant to this Agreement since the date of such most recent Exchange). No provision of this Agreement may be waived unless such waiver is in writing and signed by the party against whom the waiver is to be effective.

(d) All of the terms and provisions of this Agreement shall be binding upon, shall inure to the benefit of and shall be enforceable by the parties hereto and their respective successors, assigns, heirs, executors, administrators and legal representatives. The Corporate Taxpayer shall require and cause any direct or indirect successor (whether by purchase, merger, consolidation or otherwise) to all or substantially all of the business or assets of the Corporate Taxpayer, by written agreement, expressly to assume and agree to perform this Agreement in the same manner and to the same extent that the Corporate Taxpayer would be required to perform if no such succession had taken place.

 

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Section 7.7 Titles and Subtitles. The titles of the sections and subsections of this Agreement are for convenience of reference only and are not to be considered in construing this Agreement.

Section 7.8 Resolution of Disputes.

(a) Any and all disputes which are not governed by Section 7.9 and cannot be settled amicably, including any ancillary claims of any party, arising out of, relating to or in connection with the validity, negotiation, execution, interpretation, performance or non-performance of this Agreement shall be governed by, and construed in accordance with, the laws of the State of Delaware, without giving effect to any choice of law or conflict of law rules or provisions (whether of the State of Delaware or any other jurisdiction) that would cause the application of the laws of any jurisdiction other than the State of Delaware. Any dispute relating hereto shall be heard in the state or federal courts of Delaware and the parties agree to jurisdiction and venue therein. The parties hereto agree that any suit, action or proceeding seeking to enforce any provision of, or based on any matter arising out of or in connection with, this Agreement or the transactions contemplated hereby shall be brought in any United States District Court in Delaware or any Delaware State, so long as one of such courts shall have subject matter jurisdiction over such suit, action or proceeding, and that any cause of action arising out of this Agreement shall be deemed to have arisen from a transaction of business in the State of Delaware, and each of the parties hereby irrevocably consents to the jurisdiction of such courts (and of the appropriate appellate courts therefrom) in any such suit, action or proceeding and irrevocably waives, to the fullest extent permitted by law, any objection that it may now or hereafter have to the laying of the venue of any such suit, action or proceeding in any such court or that any such suit, action or proceeding brought in any such court has been brought in an inconvenient forum. Process in any such suit, action or proceeding may be served on any party anywhere in the world, whether within or without the jurisdiction of any such court. Each TRA Party irrevocably appoints the Corporate Taxpayer as agent of such TRA Party for service of process in connection with any such action or proceeding and agrees that service of process upon such agent, who shall promptly advise the TRA Party of any such service of process, shall be deemed in every respect effective service of process upon the TRA Party in any such action or proceeding.

(b) AS A SPECIFICALLY BARGAINED FOR INDUCEMENT FOR EACH OF THE PARTIES HERETO TO ENTER INTO THIS AGREEMENT (AFTER HAVING THE OPPORTUNITY TO CONSULT WITH COUNSEL), EACH PARTY HERETO EXPRESSLY WAIVES THE RIGHT TO TRIAL BY JURY IN ANY LAWSUIT OR PROCEEDING RELATING TO OR ARISING IN ANY WAY FROM THIS AGREEMENT OR THE MATTERS CONTEMPLATED HEREBY.

Section 7.9 Reconciliation. In the event that the Corporate Taxpayer and the TRA Party Representative are unable to resolve a disagreement with respect to the matters governed by Section 2.3 and Section 4.2 (including any Objection Notice or Material Objection Notice made on behalf of the Permira Representative or the Warburg Representative) within the relevant period designated in this Agreement (“Reconciliation Dispute”), the Reconciliation Dispute shall be

 

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submitted for determination to a nationally recognized expert (the “Expert”) in the particular area of disagreement mutually acceptable to both parties. The Expert shall be a partner or principal in a nationally recognized accounting or law firm, and unless the Corporate Taxpayer and the TRA Party Representative agree otherwise, the Expert shall not, and the firm that employs the Expert shall not, have any material relationship with the Corporate Taxpayer or the TRA Party Representative or other actual or potential conflict of interest. If the Corporate Taxpayer and the TRA Party Representative are unable to agree on an Expert within fifteen (15) calendar days of receipt by the respondent(s) of written notice of a Reconciliation Dispute, then the Expert shall be appointed by the International Chamber of Commerce Centre for Expertise. The Expert shall resolve any matter relating to the TRA Party’s Basis Schedule or an amendment thereto or the Early Termination Schedule or an amendment thereto within thirty (30) calendar days and shall resolve any matter relating to a Tax Benefit Schedule or an amendment thereto within fifteen (15) calendar days or as soon thereafter as is reasonably practicable, in each case after the matter has been submitted to the Expert for resolution. Notwithstanding the preceding sentence, if the matter is not resolved before any payment that is the subject of a disagreement would be due (in the absence of such disagreement) or any Tax Return reflecting the subject of a disagreement is due, the undisputed amount shall be paid on the date prescribed by this Agreement and such Tax Return may be filed as prepared by the Corporate Taxpayer, subject to adjustment or amendment upon resolution. The costs and expenses relating to the engagement of such Expert or amending any Tax Return shall be borne by the Corporate Taxpayer except as provided in the next sentence. The Corporate Taxpayer and the TRA Party Representative shall bear their own costs and expenses of such proceeding, unless (i) the Expert adopts the TRA Party Representative’s position, in which case the Corporate Taxpayer shall reimburse the TRA Party Representative for any reasonable out-of-pocket costs and expenses in such proceeding, or (ii) the Expert adopts the Corporate Taxpayer’s position, in which case the TRA Party Representative shall reimburse the Corporate Taxpayer for any reasonable out-of-pocket costs and expenses in such proceeding. Any dispute as to whether a dispute is a Reconciliation Dispute within the meaning of this Section 7.9 shall be decided by the Expert. The Expert shall finally determine any Reconciliation Dispute and the determinations of the Expert pursuant to this Section 7.9 shall be binding on the Corporate Taxpayer and each of the TRA Parties and may be entered and enforced in any court having jurisdiction.

Section 7.10 Withholding. The Corporate Taxpayer shall be entitled to deduct and withhold from any payment payable pursuant to this Agreement such amounts as the Corporate Taxpayer is required to deduct and withhold with respect to the making of such payment under the Code or any provision of state and local law; provided that, prior to deducting or withholding any such amounts, the Corporate Taxpayer shall notify the TRA Party Representative and shall consult in good faith with the TRA Party Representative regarding the basis for such deduction or withholding; provided, further, that (a) in the case of deduction or withholding in respect of a payment to a Permira Party, the Corporate Taxpayer shall notify the Permira Representative and shall consult in good faith with the Permira Representative regarding the basis for such deduction or withholding, (b) in the case of deduction or withholding in respect of a payment to a Warburg Party, the Corporate Taxpayer shall notify the Warburg Representative and shall consult in good faith with the Warburg Representative regarding the basis for such deduction or withholding, and (c) in the case of deduction and withholding in respect of a payment to a WCAS Party, the Corporate Taxpayer shall notify the WCAS Representative and consult in good faith with the WCAS representative regarding the basis for such deduction and withholding. To the extent that

 

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amounts are so withheld and paid over to the appropriate Taxing Authority by the Corporate Taxpayer, such withheld amounts shall be treated for all purposes of this Agreement as having been paid to the Person in respect of whom such withholding was made. Each TRA Party shall promptly provide the Corporate Taxpayer, OpCo or other applicable withholding agent with any applicable Tax forms and certifications (including IRS Form W-9 or the applicable version of IRS Form W-8 (together with any applicable attachments)) reasonably requested, in connection with determining whether any such deductions and withholdings are required under the Code or any provision of United States state and local law.

Section 7.11 Admission of the Corporate Taxpayer into a Consolidated Group; Transfers of Corporate Assets.

(a) If the Corporate Taxpayer is or becomes a member of an affiliated or consolidated group of corporations that files a consolidated income Tax Return pursuant to Sections 1501 et seq. of the Code or any corresponding provisions of state or local law, then: (i) the provisions of this Agreement shall be applied with respect to the group as a whole; and (ii) Tax Benefit Payments, Early Termination Payments and other applicable items hereunder shall be computed with reference to the consolidated taxable income of the group as a whole.

(b) If the Corporate Taxpayer (or any member of a group described in Section 7.11(a)) transfers or is deemed to transfer any Unit or any Reference Property to a transferee that is treated as a corporation for United States federal income tax purposes (other than a member of a group described in Section 7.11(a)) in a transaction in which the transferee’s basis in the property acquired is determined in whole or in part by reference to such transferor’s basis in such property, then the Corporate Taxpayer shall cause such transferee to assume the obligation to make payments hereunder with respect to the applicable Tax Attributes associated with any Reference Property or interest therein acquired (directly or indirectly) in such transfer (taking into account any gain recognized in the transaction) in a manner consistent with the terms of this Agreement as the transferee (or one of its Affiliates) actually realizes Tax benefits from the Tax Attributes. If OpCo transfers (or is deemed to transfer for United States federal income tax purposes) any Reference Property to a transferee that is treated as a corporation for United States federal income tax purposes (other than a member of a group described in Section 7.11(a)) in a transaction in which the transferee’s basis in the property acquired is determined in whole or in part by reference to such transferor’s basis in such property, OpCo shall be treated as having disposed of the Reference Property in a wholly taxable transaction. The consideration deemed to be received by OpCo in a transaction contemplated in the prior sentence shall be equal to the fair market value of the deemed transferred asset, plus (i) the amount of debt to which such asset is subject, in the case of a transfer of an encumbered asset or (ii) the amount of debt allocated to such asset, in the case of a transfer of a partnership interest. If any member of a group described in Section 7.11(a) that owns any Unit deconsolidates from the group (or the Corporate Taxpayer deconsolidates from the group), then the Corporate Taxpayer shall cause such member (or the parent of the consolidated group in a case where the Corporate Taxpayer deconsolidates from the group) to assume the obligation to make payments hereunder with respect to the applicable Tax Attributes associated with any Reference Property it owns (directly or indirectly) in a manner consistent with the terms of this Agreement as the member (or one of its Affiliates) actually realizes Tax benefits. If a transferee or a member of a group described in Section 7.11(a) assumes an obligation to make payments hereunder pursuant to either of the foregoing sentences, then the initial obligor is relieved of the obligation assumed.

 

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(c) If the Corporate Taxpayer (or any member of a group described in Section 7.11(a)) transfers (or is deemed to transfer for United States federal income tax purposes) any Unit in a transaction that is wholly or partially taxable, then for purposes of calculating payments under this Agreement, OpCo shall be treated as having disposed of the portion of any Reference Property that is indirectly transferred by the Corporate Taxpayer (i.e., taking into account the number of Units transferred) in a wholly or partially taxable transaction in which all income, gain or loss is allocated to the Corporate Taxpayer. The consideration deemed to be received by OpCo shall be equal to the fair market value of the deemed transferred asset, plus (i) the amount of debt to which such asset is subject, in the case of a transfer of an encumbered asset or (ii) the amount of debt allocated to such asset, in the case of a transfer of a partnership interest.

Section 7.12 Confidentiality.

(a) Subject to the last sentence of Section 6.3, each TRA Party and each of their assignees acknowledge and agree that the information of the Corporate Taxpayer is confidential and, except in the course of performing any duties as necessary for the Corporate Taxpayer and its Affiliates, as required by law or legal process or to enforce the terms of this Agreement, such person shall keep and retain in the strictest confidence and not disclose to any Person any confidential matters, acquired pursuant to this Agreement, of the Corporate Taxpayer and its Affiliates and successors, concerning OpCo, its members and its Affiliates and successors, learned by the TRA Party heretofore or hereafter. This Section 7.12 shall not apply to (i) any information that has been made publicly available by the Corporate Taxpayer or any of its Affiliates, becomes public knowledge (except as a result of an act of the TRA Party in violation of this Agreement) or is generally known to the business community and (ii) the disclosure of information to the extent necessary for the TRA Party to prepare and file its Tax Returns, to respond to any inquiries regarding the same from any Taxing Authority or to prosecute or defend any action, proceeding or audit by any Taxing Authority with respect to such returns. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein, each TRA Party and each of their assignees (and each employee, representative or other agent of the TRA Party or its assignees, as applicable) may disclose to any and all Persons, without limitation of any kind, the Tax treatment and Tax structure of the Corporate Taxpayer, OpCo and their Affiliates, and any of their transactions, and all materials of any kind (including opinions or other Tax analyses) that are provided to the TRA Party relating to such Tax treatment and Tax structure.

(b) If a TRA Party or an assignee commits a breach, or threatens to commit a breach, of any of the provisions of this Section 7.12, the Corporate Taxpayer shall have the right and remedy to have the provisions of this Section 7.12 specifically enforced by injunctive relief or otherwise by any court of competent jurisdiction without the need to post any bond or other security, it being acknowledged and agreed that any such breach or threatened breach shall cause irreparable injury to the Corporate Taxpayer or any of its Subsidiaries or the TRA Parties and the accounts and funds managed by the Corporate Taxpayer and that money damages alone shall not provide an adequate remedy to such Persons. Such rights and remedies shall be in addition to, and not in lieu of, any other rights and remedies available at law or in equity.

 

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Section 7.13 Change in Law. Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, if, in connection with an actual or proposed change in law, a TRA Party reasonably believes that the existence of this Agreement could cause income (other than income arising from receipt of a payment under this Agreement) recognized by the TRA Party upon any Exchange by such TRA Party to be treated as ordinary income rather than capital gain (or otherwise taxed at ordinary income rates) for United States federal income tax purposes or would have other material adverse Tax consequences to such TRA Party, then at the election of such TRA Party and to the extent specified by such TRA Party, this Agreement (a) shall cease to have further effect with respect to such TRA Party, (b) shall not apply to an Exchange by such TRA Party occurring after a date specified by such TRA Party, or (c) shall, if approved by the TRA Party Representative, otherwise be amended in a manner determined by the TRA Party Representative, provided that such amendment shall not result in an increase in payments under this Agreement at any time as compared to the amounts and times of payments that would have been due in the absence of such amendment.

Section 7.14 Electronic Signature. This Agreement, the agreements referred to herein, and each other agreement or instrument entered into in connection herewith or therewith or contemplated hereby or thereby, and any amendments hereto or thereto, to the extent signed and delivered by means of a facsimile machine or electronic transmission in portable document format (pdf) or comparable electronic transmission, shall be treated in all manner and respects as an original agreement or instrument and shall be considered to have the same binding legal effect as if it were the original signed version thereof delivered in person. At the request of any party hereto or to any such agreement or instrument, each other party hereto or thereto shall reexecute original forms thereof and deliver them to all other parties. No party hereto or to any such agreement or instrument shall raise the use of a facsimile machine or pdf electronic transmission or comparable electronic transmission to deliver a signature or the fact that any signature or agreement or instrument was transmitted or communicated through the use of a facsimile machine as a defense to the formation or enforceability of a contract and each such party forever waives any such defense.

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned have executed this Agreement as of the date first written above.

 

CORPORATE TAXPAYER:
Clearwater Analytics Holdings, Inc.,
a Delaware corporation
By:  

/s/ Jim Cox

Name:   Jim Cox
Title:   Chief Financial Officer
OPCO:
CWAN Holdings, LLC,
a Delaware limited liability company
By:  

/s/ Jim Cox

Name:   Jim Cox
Title:   Chief Financial Officer


TRA PARTIES:
SOCKEYE TRADING COMPANY INC.
By:   /s/ Doug Bates

Name: Doug Bates

Title: Authorized Signatory


WCAS GP CW LLC
By:   /s/ Jonathan Rather

Name: Jonathan Rather

Title: Managing Member

WCAS XII CARBON ANALYTICS ACQUISITION, L.P.

By: WCAS XII Associates LLC, its General Partner

By:   /s/ Jonathan Rather

Name: Jonathan M. Rather

Title: Managing Member

WCAS XIII CARBON ANALYTICS ACQUISITION, L.P.

By: WCAS XIII Associates LLC, its General Partner

By:   /s/ Jonathan Rather

Name: Jonathan Rather

Title: Managing Member


WELSH, CARSON, ANDERSON & STOWE XII, L.P.

By: WCAS XII Associates LLC

Its: General Partner

By:   /s/ Jonathan Rather

Name: Jonathan Rather

Title: Managing Member

WELSH, CARSON, ANDERSON & STOWE XII DELAWARE L.P.

By: WCAS XII Associates Cayman, L.P.

Its: General Partner

By:   /s/ Jonathan Rather

Name: Jonathan Rather

Title: Managing Member

WELSH, CARSON, ANDERSON & STOWE XII DELAWARE II, L.P.

By: WCAS XII Associates LLC

Its: General Partner

By:   /s/ Jonathan Rather

Name: Jonathan Rather

Title: Managing Member

WELSH, CARSON, ANDERSON & STOWE XII CAYMAN, L P.

By: WCAS XII Associates Cayman, L.P.

Its: General Partner

By:   /s/ Jonathan Rather

Name: Jonathan Rather

Title: Managing Member


WCAS XII CARBON INVESTORS, L.P.

By: WCAS XII Associates LLC, its general partner

By:   /s/ Jonathan Rather

Name: Jonathan Rather

Title: Managing Member

WCAS XIII CARBON INVESTORS, L.P.

By: WCAS XIII Associates LLC, its general partner

By:   /s/ Jonathan Rather

Name: Jonathan Rather

Title: Managing Member

WCAS XIII, L.P.

By: WCAS XIII Associates LLC, its general partner

By:   /s/ Jonathan Rather

Name: Jonathan Rather

Title: Managing Member

WCAS XIII CAYMAN, L.P.

By: WCAS XIII Associates LLC, its general partner

By:   /s/ Jonathan Rather

Name: Jonathan Rather

Title: Managing Member


CARBON ANALYTICS MANAGEMENT HOLDINGS LLC
By:   /s/ Sandeep Sahai

Name: Sandeep Sahai

Title: Authorized Signatory


CALCULATED DF HOLDINGS, LP
By:   /s/ Michael Dimitruk

Name: Michael Dimitruk

Title: Vice President


DURABLE CAPITAL MASTER FUND LP

By: Durable Capital Partners LP

Its: Investment Manager

By:   /s/ Julie Jack

Name: Julie Jack

Title: Authorized Person


GALIBIER PURCHASER LLC

By:   /s/ Justin Herridge

Name: Justin Herridge

Title: Manager


KATHLEEN A. CORBET

By:   /s/ Kathleen A. Corbet

Name: Kathleen A. Corbet


MARCUS RYU

By:   /s/ Marcus Ryu

Name: Marcus Ryu


JACQUES AIGRAIN

By:   /s/ Jacques Aigrain

Name: Jacques Aigrain


TYLER HAWS

By:   /s/ Tyler Haws

Name: Tyler Haws


Exhibit A

Form of Joinder

This JOINDER (this “Joinder”) to the Tax Receivable Agreement (as defined below), is by and among Clearwater Analytics Holdings, Inc., a Delaware corporation (including any successor corporation the “Corporate Taxpayer”), ______________________ (“Transferor”) and ______________________ (“Permitted Transferee”).

WHEREAS, on ______________________, Permitted Transferee shall acquire ______________________ percent of the Transferor’s right to receive payments that may become due and payable under the Tax Receivable Agreement (as defined below) (the “Acquired Interests”) from Transferor (the “Acquisition”); and

WHEREAS, Transferor, in connection with the Acquisition, has required Permitted Transferee to execute and deliver this Joinder pursuant to Section 7.6(a) of the Tax Receivable Agreement, dated as of September 28, 2021, between the Corporate Taxpayer, OpCo and the TRA Parties (as defined therein) (the “Tax Receivable Agreement”).

NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the foregoing and the respective covenants and agreements set forth herein, and intending to be legally bound hereby, the parties hereto agree as follows:

Section 1.1 Definitions. To the extent capitalized words used in this Joinder are not defined in this Joinder, such words shall have the respective meanings set forth in the Tax Receivable Agreement.

Section 1.2 Acquisition. For good and valuable consideration, the sufficiency of which is hereby acknowledged by the Transferor and the Permitted Transferee, the Transferor hereby transfers and assigns absolutely to the Permitted Transferee all of the Acquired Interests.

Section 1.3 Joinder. Permitted Transferee hereby acknowledges and agrees (i) that it has received and read the Tax Receivable Agreement, (ii) that the Permitted Transferee is acquiring the Acquired Interests in accordance with and subject to the terms and conditions of the Tax Receivable Agreement and (iii) to become a “TRA Party” (as defined in the Tax Receivable Agreement) for all purposes of the Tax Receivable Agreement.

Section 1.4 Notice. Any notice, request, consent, claim, demand, approval, waiver or other communication hereunder to Permitted Transferee shall be delivered or sent to Permitted Transferee at the address set forth on the signature page hereto in accordance with Section 7.1 of the Tax Receivable Agreement.

Section 1.5 Governing Law. This Joinder shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the law of the State of Delaware.


IN WITNESS WHEREOF, this Joinder has been duly executed and delivered by Permitted Transferee as of the date first above written.

 

CORPORATE TAXPAYER:
Clearwater Analytics Holdings, Inc.,
a Delaware corporation
By:________________________________
Name:_____________________________
Title:_______________________________
TRANSFEROR:
[__________________________________]
By:________________________________
Name:_____________________________
Title:_______________________________
PERMITTED TRANSFEREE:
[__________________________________]
By:________________________________
Name:_____________________________
Title:_______________________________


Exhibit C

Eligible Executive Officers

Cindy Blendu

Jim Cox

Scott Erickson

James Price

Gayatri Raman

Sandeep Sahai

Subi Sethi

Alphonse Valbrune

Exhibit 10.4

 

 

 

 

 

CWAN HOLDINGS, LLC

THIRD AMENDED AND RESTATED LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY AGREEMENT

 

 

Dated as of September 28, 2021

THE UNITS REPRESENTED BY THIS THIRD AMENDED AND RESTATED LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY AGREEMENT HAVE NOT BEEN REGISTERED UNDER THE UNITED STATES SECURITIES ACT OF 1933, AS AMENDED OR UNDER ANY OTHER APPLICABLE SECURITIES LAWS. SUCH UNITS MAY NOT BE SOLD, ASSIGNED, PLEDGED OR OTHERWISE DISPOSED OF AT ANY TIME WITHOUT EFFECTIVE REGISTRATION UNDER SUCH ACT AND LAWS OR EXEMPTION THEREFROM, AND COMPLIANCE WITH THE OTHER SUBSTANTIAL RESTRICTIONS ON TRANSFER SET FORTH HEREIN.

 

 

 


TABLE OF CONTENTS

 

         Page  

ARTICLE I DEFINITIONS

     2  

ARTICLE II ORGANIZATIONAL MATTERS

     13  

2.1

  Formation of the Company      13  

2.2

  Limited Liability Company Agreement      14  

2.3

  Name      14  

2.4

  Purpose      14  

2.5

  Principal Office; Registered Office      14  

2.6

  Term      14  

2.7

  No State-Law Partnership      14  

ARTICLE III CAPITAL CONTRIBUTIONS

     15  

3.1

  Unitholders      15  

3.2

  Negative Capital Accounts      20  

3.3

  No Withdrawal      20  

3.4

  Loans From Unitholders      20  

3.5

  Distributions In-Kind      20  

3.6

  Transfer of Capital Accounts      20  

ARTICLE IV DISTRIBUTIONS, ALLOCATIONS AND REDEMPTIONS

     24  

4.1

  Distributions      24  

4.2

  Allocations      25  

4.3

  Tax Allocations      27  

4.4

  Indemnification and Reimbursement for Payments on Behalf of a Unitholder      28  

ARTICLE V MANAGEMENT

     28  

5.1

  Authority of Manager; Officer Delegation; Sole Authority.      28  

5.2

  Actions of the Manager      29  

5.3

  Resignation; No Removal      29  

5.4

  Vacancies      29  

5.5

  Transactions Between the Company and the Manager      29  

5.6

  Reimbursement for Expenses      30  

5.7

  Delegation of Authority      30  

5.8

  Limitation of Liability of Manager      31  

5.9

  Investment Company Act      31  

ARTICLE VI RIGHTS AND OBLIGATIONS OF UNITHOLDERS AND MEMBERS

     32  

6.1

  Limitation of Liability      32  

 

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6.2

  Lack of Authority      32  

6.3

  No Right of Partition      32  

6.4

  Indemnification      32  

6.5

  Unitholders Right to Act      36  

6.6

  Investment Opportunities and Conflicts of Interest      37  

6.7

  Interested Transactions      37  

6.8

  Confidentiality      37  

ARTICLE VII BOOKS, RECORDS, ACCOUNTING AND REPORTS

     38  

7.1

  Records and Accounting      38  

7.2

  Tax Reports      38  

7.3

  Transmission of Communications      38  

ARTICLE VIII TAX MATTERS

     38  

8.1

  Preparation of Tax Returns      38  

8.2

  Tax Elections      38  

8.3

  Tax Controversies      39  

ARTICLE IX TRANSFER OF UNITS

     39  

9.1

  Required Consent      39  

9.2

  Approved Sale      40  

9.3

  Effect of Assignment      41  

9.4

  Additional Restrictions on Transfer      42  

9.5

  Legend      43  

9.6

  Transfer Fees and Expenses      44  

9.7

  Void Transfers      44  

9.8

  Vesting, Forfeiture and Repurchase of Units      44  

9.9

  Exchange of Combined Units for Class A Common Stock      44  

9.10

  Adjustment of Exchange Rate.      49  

9.11

  Class A Common Stock or Class D Common Stock to be Delivered upon Exchange.      50  

9.12

  Withholding; Certification of Non-Foreign Status.      51  

9.13

  No Transfer of Class B Common Stock or Class C Common Stock      52  

9.14

  Tender Offers and Other Events with Respect to the Public Offering Entity      52  

ARTICLE X ADMISSION OF MEMBERS

     53  

10.1

  Substituted Members      53  

10.2

  Additional Members      53  

ARTICLE XI WITHDRAWAL AND RESIGNATION OF UNITHOLDERS

     53  

11.1

  Withdrawal and Resignation of Unitholders      53  

ARTICLE XII DISSOLUTION AND LIQUIDATION

     54  

 

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12.1

  Dissolution      54  

12.2

  Liquidation and Termination      54  

12.3

  Securityholders Agreement      55  

12.4

  Cancellation of Certificate      55  

12.5

  Reasonable Time for Winding Up      55  

12.6

  Return of Capital      55  

12.7

  Hart-Scott-Rodino      55  

ARTICLE XIII VALUATION

     55  

13.1

  Valuation of Subsidiary Securities      55  

13.2

  Valuation of Other Assets and Company Securities      56  

13.3

  Valuation of Other Securities      56  

ARTICLE XIV GENERAL PROVISIONS

     56  

14.1

  Power of Attorney      56  

14.2

  Amendments      57  

14.3

  Title to Company Assets      57  

14.4

  Successors and Assigns      57  

14.5

  Severability      57  

14.6

  Counterparts; Binding Agreement      57  

14.7

  Descriptive Headings; Interpretation      58  

14.8

  Applicable Law; Venue; Jury Trial Waiver      58  

14.9

  Addresses and Notices      58  

14.10

  Creditors      59  

14.11

  Waiver      59  

14.12

  Further Action      59  

14.13

  Entire Agreement      59  

14.14

  Opt-in to Article 8 of the Uniform Commercial Code      59  

14.15

  Delivery by Facsimile or PDF      59  

14.16

  Survival      59  

14.17

  Tax and Other Advice      60  

14.18

  Acknowledgments      60  

 

 

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CWAN HOLDINGS, LLC

THIRD AMENDED AND RESTATED LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY

AGREEMENT

THIS THIRD AMENDED AND RESTATED LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY AGREEMENT, dated as of September 28, 2021 (the “Effective Date”), is adopted, executed and agreed to, for good and valuable consideration, by and among the Company (f/k/a Carbon Analytics Holdings, LLC), Clearwater Analytics Holdings, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “Public Offering Entity”), as the managing member of the Company, and each of the Unitholders (as defined herein).

RECITALS

WHEREAS, the Company was formed under the Delaware Limited Liability Company Act, 6 Del. L. § 18-101, et seq., as it may be amended from time to time (the “Delaware Act”) pursuant to a Certificate of Formation of the Company (as amended from time to time in accordance with its terms, the “Certificate”), which was filed with the Secretary of State of the State of Delaware on July 25, 2016 under the name Carbon Analytics Holdings, LLC.

WHEREAS, the initial limited liability company agreement of the Company was entered into by and among WCAS XII Carbon Analytics Acquisition, L.P., a Delaware limited partnership, and the Company on July 25, 2016, which was amended and restated in its entirety on September 1, 2016, which was further amended and restated in its entirety pursuant to the terms of a certain Second Amended and Restated Limited Liability Company Agreement of the Company, dated as of November 2, 2020 (the “Prior Agreement”).

WHEREAS, in connection with the adoption of this Agreement and the IPO (as defined below), the Company has recapitalized all of its Units into a single class of Class A Common Units of the Company (the “Recapitalization”), has changed its name to CWAN Holdings, LLC, and undertaken certain other reorganization transactions pursuant to which, among other matters, the Public Offering Entity was admitted as the managing member of the Company.

WHEREAS, the Public Offering Entity will sell shares of Class A Common Stock to public investors in the IPO and will use the net proceeds received from the IPO (the IPO Net Proceeds”) to acquire newly-issued Class A Common Units of the Company (the “IPO Unit Acquisition”).

WHEREAS, the Unitholders desire to amend and restate the Prior Agreement in its entirety to set forth the rights, powers and interests of the Unitholders with respect to the Company and their respective interests therein and to provide for the management of the business and operations of the Company, including to reflect, as of the Effective Date, among other things, (A) the Recapitalization, (B) the addition of the Public Offering Entity as a Unitholder and its designation as sole Manager of the Company and (C) the rights and obligations of the Unitholders, the Company, the Manager and the Public Offering Entity, all as more fully set forth herein.

NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the mutual covenants contained herein and other good and valuable consideration, the receipt and sufficiency of which are hereby acknowledged, the parties hereto, intending to be legally bound, hereby agree as follows:

 

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AGREEMENT

ARTICLE I

DEFINITIONS

Capitalized terms used but not otherwise defined herein shall have the following meanings:

Additional Member” has the meaning set forth in Section 10.2.

Adjusted Capital Account Balance” means, with respect to any Person’s Capital Account as of the end of any Taxable Year, the balance of such Person’s Capital Account (a) reduced for any items described in Treasury Regulation Sections 1.704-1(b)(2)(ii)(d)(4), (5), and (6), and (b) increased for any amount such Person is obligated to contribute or is treated as being obligated to contribute to the Company pursuant to Treasury Regulation Sections 1.704-1(b)(2)(ii)(c) (relating to partner liabilities to a partnership) or 1.704-2(g)(1) and 1.704-2(i) (relating to Minimum Gain).

Affiliate” means, with respect to any particular Person, any other Person controlling, controlled by, or under common control with such particular Person, where “control” means the possession, directly or indirectly, of the power to direct the management and policies of a Person whether through the ownership of voting securities, by contract or otherwise, including any investment vehicle or fund or any other corporation, trust, limited liability company, general or limited partnership controlled by or managed by a particular Person (but not any portfolio company thereof). For purposes of this Agreement, the Company, the Public Offering Entity and their respective Subsidiaries, on the one hand, shall not be considered Affiliates of any Unitholder, on the other (and vice versa).

Agreement” means this Third Amended and Restated Limited Liability Company Agreement, as amended, restated, modified or waived from time to time in accordance with the terms hereof.

Approved Sale” has the meaning set forth in Section 9.2(a).

Assignee” means a Person to whom Units have been Transferred in accordance with the terms of this Agreement and the other agreements contemplated hereby, but who has not become a Member pursuant to Article X.

Assumed Tax Liability” means, with respect to any Member, an amount equal to the excess of (i) the product of (A) the Distribution Tax Rate multiplied by (B) the estimated or actual cumulative taxable income or gain of the Company, as determined for U.S. federal income tax purposes, allocated to such Member (or its predecessor) for full or partial Taxable Years commencing on or after January 1, 2021, less prior losses of the Company allocated to such Member (or its predecessor) for full or partial Fiscal Years commencing on or after January 1, 2021, in each case, as determined by the Manager, and to the extent such prior losses are available to reduce such income over (ii) the cumulative Tax Distributions made to such Member after the closing date of the IPO pursuant to Sections 4.1(a)(i), 4.1(a)(ii) and 4.1(a)(iii); provided that, in the case of the Public Offering Entity, such Assumed Tax Liability (x) shall be

 

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computed without regard to any increases to the tax basis of the Company’s property pursuant to Sections 734(b) or 743(b) of the Code and (y) to the extent permitted under any agreements to which the Company is subject and applicable Law, shall in no event be less than an amount that will enable the the Public Offering Entity to meet both its tax obligations and its obligations pursuant to the Tax Receivable Agreement for the relevant Taxable Year; provided further that, in the case of each Member, and for the avoidance of doubt, such Assumed Tax Liability shall take into account any Code Section 704(c) allocations (including any “reverse” 704(c) allocations) to the Member.

Base Rate” means, on any date, a variable rate per annum equal to the rate of interest most recently published by The Wall Street Journal as the “prime rate” at large U.S. money center banks.

Beneficial Owner” means, with respect to a security, any Person who directly or indirectly, through any contract, arrangement, understanding, relationship or otherwise, has or shares (a) voting power, which includes the power to vote, or to direct the voting of, such security and/or (b) investment power, which includes the power to dispose of, or to direct the disposition of, such security.

Book Value” means, with respect to any Company property, the Company’s adjusted basis for U.S. federal income tax purposes, adjusted from time to time to reflect the adjustments required or permitted, in the case of permitted adjustments (to the extent the Company makes such permitted adjustments), by Treasury Regulation Sections 1.704-1(b)(2)(iv)(d)-(g) and (s).

Business Day” means any day, other than a Saturday, Sunday or any other day on which commercial banks located in Boise, Idaho or New York, New York are authorized or obligated by law or executive order to close.

Capital Account” means the capital account maintained for a Member pursuant to Section 3.1(d).

Capital Contribution” means any cash, cash equivalents, promissory obligations or the Fair Market Value of other property that a Unitholder contributes or is deemed to contribute (including any with respect to units of the Company that existed prior to the date hereof) with respect to any Unit pursuant to Section 3.1, net of any liabilities assumed by the Company for such Unitholder in connection with such contribution and net of any liabilities to which the assets contributed by such Unitholder are subject.

Cash Redemption Price means, with respect to any Exchange, the arithmetic average of the volume weighted average prices for a share of Class A Common Stock on the New York Stock Exchange, or any other exchange or automated or electronic quotation system on which the Class A Common Stock trades, as reported by Bloomberg, L.P., or its successor, for each of the twenty (20) consecutive full Trading Days ending on and including the last full Trading Day immediately prior to the applicable Exchange Date, subject to appropriate and equitable adjustment for any stock splits, reverse splits, stock dividends or similar events affecting the Class A Common Stock. If the Class A Common Stock no longer trades on the New York Stock Exchange or any other securities exchange or automated or electronic quotation system as of any particular Exchange Date, then the Manager (through a majority of its directors who are disinterested) shall determine the Cash Redemption Price in good faith.

 

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Cash Settlement” has the meaning set forth in Section 9.9(a)(i).

Certificate” has the meaning set forth in the recitals.

Certificated Units” has the meaning set forth in Section 3.1(a).

Change of Control” means the occurrence of any of the following events after the date hereof:

(a) any Person or any group of Persons acting together which would constitute a “group” for purposes of Section 13(d) of the Exchange Act, or any successor provisions thereto, excluding (i) the WCAS Investors or any of their Affiliates or a group of Persons that includes the WCAS Investors or any of their Affiliates thereof and (ii) any entity owned, directly or indirectly, by the stockholders of the Public Offering Entity in substantially the same proportions as their ownership of stock in the Public Offering Entity, is or becomes the Beneficial Owner, directly or indirectly, of securities of the Public Offering Entity representing more than fifty percent (50%) of the combined voting power of the Public Offering Entity’s then outstanding Voting Securities;

(b) there is consummated a merger or consolidation of the Public Offering Entity with any other corporation or other entity, and, immediately after the consummation of such merger or consolidation, the Voting Securities of the Public Offering Entity immediately prior to such merger or consolidation do not continue to represent or are not converted into more than fifty percent (50%) of the combined voting power of the then outstanding voting securities of the Person resulting from such merger or consolidation or, if the surviving company is a Subsidiary, the ultimate parent thereof; or

(c) the adopting of a plan of complete liquidation or dissolution of the Public Offering Entity by the stockholders of the Public Offering Entity or an agreement or series of related agreements for the sale or other disposition, directly or indirectly, by the Public Offering Entity of all or substantially all of the Public Offering Entity’s assets, other than such sale or other disposition by the Public Offering Entity of all or substantially all of the Public Offering Entity’s assets to an entity, at least fifty percent (50%) of the combined voting power of the voting securities of which are owned by shareholders of the Public Offering Entity in substantially the same proportions as their ownership of the Public Offering Entity immediately prior to such sale.

Notwithstanding the foregoing, except with respect to clause (b) and clause (c) above, a “Change of Control” shall not be deemed to have occurred by virtue of the consummation of any transaction or series of integrated transactions immediately following which the record holders of the shares of the Public Offering Entity immediately prior to such transaction or series of transactions continue to have substantially the same proportionate ownership in, and own substantially all of the shares of, an entity which owns, either directly or through a Subsidiary, all or substantially all of the assets of the Public Offering Entity immediately following such transaction or series of transactions.

 

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Class A Common Unit” means a unit representing a fractional part of the interest of a Unitholder in Distributions and the rights and obligations specified with respect to the Class A Common Units in this Agreement.

Class A Unitholder” means any holder of Class A Common Units other than the Public Offering Entity.

Class A Common Stock” means the Class A Common Stock, par value $0.001 per share, of the Public Offering Entity.

Class B Common Stock” means the Class B Common Stock, par value $0.001 per share, of the Public Offering Entity.

Class C Common Stock” means the Class C Common Stock, par value $0.001 per share, of the Public Offering Entity.

Class D Common Stock” means the Class D Common Stock, par value $0.001 per share, of the Public Offering Entity.

Code” means the U.S. Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended.

Co-Investment Vehicle” means (i) a pooled investment fund that is formed primarily to invest, directly or indirectly, alongside a Fund Vehicle in the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, together with any alternative investment vehicles related to that pooled investment fund and (ii) any investment vehicle directly or indirectly wholly owned by a fund described in the foregoing clause (i).

Combined Unit” means, collectively, (i) a Class A Common Unit or other interest in the Company that may be issued by the Company in the future or for which a Class A Common Unit has been converted or exchanged, excluding in each case any unvested Class A Common Unit, and (ii) a share of Noneconomic Stock.

Company” means CWAN Holdings LLC, a Delaware limited liability company, and any successor thereto (whether by merger, conversion, consolidation, recapitalization, reorganization or otherwise).

Company Employee” has the meaning set forth in Section 3.7(b).

Company Interest” means the interest of a Unitholder in Profits, Losses and Distributions.

Confidential Information” means confidential and proprietary information and trade secrets of any Group Company, including, but not limited to, confidential information of any Group Company regarding identifiable, specific and discrete business opportunities being pursued by any Group Company.

Continuation Fund” means any Fund Vehicle, Co-Investment Vehicle or single company continuation fund that is established to hold, directly or indirectly, investments in one or more portfolio companies that are acquired, in whole or in part, from an Affiliate of such Fund Vehicle or Co-Investment Vehicle.

 

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Corporate Board” means the board of directors of the Public Offering Entity.

Delaware Act” has the meaning set forth in the recitals.

DGCL” means the Delaware General Corporation Law, and any successor thereto. Any reference herein to a specific section, rule or regulation of the DGCL shall be deemed to include any corresponding provisions of future law.

Direct Exchange” has the meaning set forth in Section 9.9(a)(iv).

Disability” has the meaning set forth in the applicable Person’s corresponding Employment Agreement or other Equity Agreement with any Group Company, or if no such definition is provided in such Person’s Employment Agreement or other Equity Agreement with any Group Company, then “Disability” means a permanent and total disability as determined under such Group Company’s long-term disability plan applicable to such Group Company’s employees, interpreted and applied in a manner consistent with all applicable laws, including laws regarding workers’ compensation, disability, and family and medical leave laws.

Discount” has the meaning set forth in Section 5.6.

Distribution” means each distribution made by the Company to a Unitholder, whether in cash, property or securities of the Company and whether by liquidating distribution, redemption or repurchase; provided, that any recapitalization, exchange or conversion of Units, or any subdivision (by unit split or otherwise) or any combination (by reverse unit split or otherwise) of any outstanding Units shall not be a Distribution.

Distribution Tax Rate” means a rate equal to the highest effective marginal combined federal, state and local income tax rate for a Taxable Year applicable to corporate or individual taxpayers (whichever is higher) that may potentially apply to any Member (or, except in the case of the Public Offering Entity, its applicable direct or indirect Beneficial Owners) for such Taxable Year, taking into account the character of the relevant tax items (e.g., ordinary or capital) and the deductibility of state and local income taxes for federal income tax purposes (but only to the extent such taxes are deductible under the Code), as reasonably determined by the Manager.

Effective Date” has the meaning set forth in the recitals.

Employment Agreement” means any employment agreement entered into from time to time among any Group Company and one of their executives, as the same may be amended from time to time pursuant to its terms.

 

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Equity Agreement” means any unit grant agreement, subscription agreement, securities purchase agreement, senior management agreement, Employment Agreement and any other agreement, document or instrument evidencing or effecting the issuance or other Transfer of any Equity Securities or otherwise governing the terms and conditions with respect to any Equity Securities, in each case as the same may be amended or otherwise modified from time to time.

Equity Plan means any stock or equity purchase plan, restricted stock or equity plan, stock option plan, or other similar equity compensation plan now or hereafter adopted by the Company or the Public Offering Entity, including any Equity Agreement.

Equity Securities” means (a) units or other equity interests in the Company (including other classes, groups or series thereof having such relative rights, powers, and/or obligations as may from time to time be established by the Manager, including rights, powers, and/or duties different from, senior to or more favorable than existing classes, groups and series of units and other equity interests in the Company), (b) obligations, evidences of indebtedness or other securities or interests convertible or exchangeable into units or other equity interests in the Company, and (c) warrants, options or other rights to purchase or otherwise acquire units or other equity interests in the Company.

Event of Withdrawal” means the death, retirement, resignation, expulsion, bankruptcy or dissolution of a Member or the occurrence of any other event that terminates the continued membership of a Member in the Company.

Exchange” has meaning set forth in Section 9.9(a)(i).

Exchange Act” means the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended.

Exchange Date” has the meaning set forth in Section 9.9(a)(ii).

Exchange Notice” has the meaning set forth in Section 9.9(a)(ii).

Exchange Rate” means, at any time, the number of shares of Class A Common Stock for which one (1) Combined Unit is entitled to be Exchanged at such time. On the date of this Agreement, the Exchange Rate shall be one (1), subject to adjustment pursuant to Section 9.10.

Expenses” means all reasonable costs, expenses, fees and charges, including, without limitation, attorneys’ fees, retainers, court costs, transcript costs, fees of experts, witness fees, travel expenses, duplicating costs, printing and binding costs, telephone charges, postage, delivery service fees, and all other disbursements or expenses of the types customarily incurred in connection with prosecuting, defending, preparing to prosecute or defend, investigating, being or preparing to be a witness in, or otherwise participating in, a Proceeding. Expenses also shall include, without limitation, (a) expenses incurred in connection with any appeal resulting from, incurred by an Indemnified Person in connection with, arising out of, in respect of or relating to, any Proceeding, including, without limitation, the premium, security for, and other costs relating to any cost bond, supersedes bond, or other appeal bond or its equivalent, (b) any federal, state, local or foreign taxes imposed on an Indemnified Person as a result of the actual or deemed receipt of any payments under this Agreement (on a grossed up basis), and (c) any interest, assessments or other charges in respect of the foregoing.

Fair Market Value” means, with respect to any asset or equity interest, its fair market value determined according to Article XIII.

 

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Family Group” means an individual’s current and former spouse and descendants (whether natural or adopted), and any trust, family limited partnership, limited liability company or other entity wholly owned, directly or indirectly, by such individual or such individual’s current or former spouse and/or descendants that is and remains solely for the benefit of such individual and/or such individual’s current or former spouse and/or descendants and any retirement plan for such individual.

Fiscal Period” means any interim accounting period within a Taxable Year established by the Manager and which is permitted or required by Code Section 706.

Fiscal Year” means the calendar year ending on December 31, or such other annual accounting period as may be established by the Manager.

Fund Vehicle” means (i) a private equity investment fund that makes investments in multiple portfolio companies and was not formed primarily to invest in the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, together with any alternative investment vehicles related to that private equity investment fund and (ii) any investment vehicle directly or indirectly wholly owned by any fund (or funds under common control) described in clause (i).

Fund-to-Fund Transfer” means a Transfer of securities by the WCAS Unitholders to a successor Fund Vehicle or Co-Investment Vehicle.

Governmental Entity” means the United States of America or any other nation, any state or other political subdivision thereof, or any entity exercising executive, legislative, judicial, regulatory or administrative functions of government.

Group Company” means the Company, the Public Offering Entity and their respective direct and indirect Subsidiaries.

HSR Act” means the Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act of 1976.

Indemnified Person” has the meaning set forth in Section 6.4(a).

Investors” has the meaning set forth in the certificate of incorporation of the Public Offering Entity (as amended and in effect from time to time).

IPO” means the initial underwritten public offering of shares of the Public Offering Entity’s Class A Common Stock.

IPO Net Proceeds” has the meaning set forth in the recitals hereto.

IPO Unit Acquisition” has the meaning set forth in the recitals hereto.

Law” means all laws, statutes, ordinances, rules and regulations of any Governmental Entity.

 

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Liabilities” means all claims, liabilities, damages, losses, judgments, orders, fines, penalties and other amounts payable in connection with, arising out of, in respect of or relating to or occurring as a direct or indirect consequence of any Proceeding, including, without limitation, amounts paid in whole or partial settlement of any Proceeding, all Expenses in complying with any judgment, order or decree issued or entered in connection with any Proceeding or any settlement agreement, stipulation or consent decree entered into or issued in settlement of any Proceeding, and any consequential damages resulting from any Proceeding or the settlement, judgment, or result thereof.

Liquidation Assets” has the meaning set forth in Section 12.2(b).

Losses” means items of Company loss and deduction determined according to Section 3.1(e).

Manager” has the meaning set forth in Section 5.1(a).

Mandatory Exchange Acknowledgement” has the meaning set forth in Section 9.9(b)(iii).

Mandatory Exchange Date” has the meaning set forth in Section 9.9(b)(iii).

Mandatory Exchange Notice” has the meaning set forth in Section 9.9(b)(iii).

Market Price” means, with respect to a share of Class A Common Stock as of a specified date, the last sale price per share of Class A Common Stock, regular way, or if no such sale took place on such day, the average of the closing bid and asked prices per share of Class A Common Stock, regular way, in either case as reported in the principal consolidated transaction reporting system with respect to securities listed or admitted to trading on the New York Stock Exchange or, if the Class A Common Stock is not listed or admitted to trading on the New York Stock Exchange, as reported on the principal consolidated transaction reporting system with respect to securities listed on the principal national securities exchange on which the Class A Common Stock is listed or admitted to trading or, if the Class A Common Stock is not listed or admitted to trading on any national securities exchange, the last quoted price, or, if not so quoted, the average of the high bid and low asked prices in the over-the-counter market, as reported by the New York Stock Exchange or, if such system is no longer in use, the principal other automated quotation system that may then be in use or, if the Class A Common Stock is not quoted by any such system, the average of the closing bid and asked prices as furnished by a professional market maker making a market in shares of Class A Common Stock selected by the Corporate Board or, in the event that no trading price is available for the shares of Class A Common Stock, the Fair Market Value of a share of Class A Common Stock, as determined in good faith by the Corporate Board.

Member” means each Person listed on the Unit Ownership Ledger and any Person admitted to the Company as a Substituted Member or Additional Member in accordance with the terms and conditions of this Agreement; but in each case only for so long as such Person is shown on the Company’s books and records as the owner of one or more Units.

Minimum Gain” means the partnership minimum gain determined pursuant to Treasury Regulation Section 1.704-2(d).

 

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Noneconomic Stock” means Class B Common Stock or Class C Common Stock or any other interest in the Public Offering Entity that may be issued by the Public Offering Entity in the future or for which Class B Common Stock or Class C Common Stock has been converted or exchanged.

Offer” has the meaning set forth in Section 9.14.

Optionee” means a Person to whom a stock option is granted under any stock option plan.

Over-Allotment Contribution” has the meaning set forth in Section 3.1(a)(ii).

Partnership Representative” means the “partnership representative” of the Company for purposes of the Partnership Tax Audit Rules.

Partnership Tax Audit Rules” means Sections 6221 through 6241 of the Code, together with any guidance issued thereunder, successor provisions and any similar provisions of state or local tax laws.

pdf” has the meaning set forth in Section 14.15.

Percentage Interest” means with respect to a Unitholder at a particular time, such Unitholder’s percentage interest in the Company determined by dividing the number of such Unitholder’s Class A Common Units by the total number of Class A Common Units of all Unitholders at such time. The Percentage Interest of each Unitholder shall be calculated to the 4th decimal place.

Permitted Transferee” means any Transfer by any Unitholder (i) who is an individual, to or among his or her Family Group; provided that such Transfer shall be a Transfer of the rights to Distributions only and not a Transfer of any other rights associated with such Units, including voting and Transfer rights; or (ii) that is an entity, to or among its Affiliates or the Persons entitled to receive the assets of such Unitholder upon its dissolution in accordance with its organizational documents (it being understood that no such dissolution shall be required for such Transfer to be permitted).

Person” means an individual, a partnership, a corporation, a limited liability company, an association, a joint stock company, a trust, a joint venture, an unincorporated organization, association or other entity or a Governmental Entity.

Prior Agreement” has the meaning set forth in the Recitals.

Proceeding” means any threatened, pending or completed action, claim, suit, arbitration, alternate dispute resolution mechanism, formal or informal hearing, inquiry or investigation, litigation, administrative hearing or any other actual, threatened or completed judicial, administrative or arbitration proceeding (including, without limitation, any such proceeding under the Securities Act or the Exchange Act or any other federal law, state law, statute or regulation), whether brought in the right of the Company or otherwise, and whether of a civil, criminal, administrative or investigative nature, in which such Indemnified Person was, is or will

 

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be, or is threatened to be, involved as a party or witness or otherwise involved, affected or injured (i) by reason of the fact that such Indemnified Person is or was a Representative of a Group Company, (ii) by reason of any actual or alleged action taken by such Indemnified Person or of any action on such Indemnified Person’s part while acting as Representative of a Group Company or (iii) by reason of the fact that such Indemnified Person is or was serving at the request of the Company as a Representative of another Person, whether or not serving in such capacity at the time any liability or Expense is incurred for which indemnification, reimbursement, or advancement of Expenses can be provided under this Agreement.

Profits” means items of Company income and gain determined according to Section 3.1(e).

Public Offering Entity” has the meaning set forth in the Preamble hereto.

Regulatory Allocations” has the meaning set forth in Section 4.2(e).

Representative” means, with respect to any Person, any director, manager, officer and employee, controlling person, member, managing member, principal, fiduciary or other agent of such Person.

Securities Act” means the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and applicable rules and regulations thereunder, and any successor to such statute, rules or regulations. Any reference herein to a specific section, rule or regulation of the Securities Act shall be deemed to include any corresponding provisions of future law.

Share Settlement” has the meaning set forth in Section 9.9(a)(i).

Subsidiary” means, with respect to any Person, any corporation, limited liability company, partnership, association or business entity of which (a) if a corporation, a majority of the total voting power of shares of stock entitled (without regard to the occurrence of any contingency) to vote in the election of directors, managers or trustees thereof is at the time owned or controlled, directly or indirectly, by that Person or one or more of the other Subsidiaries of that Person or a combination thereof, or (b) if a limited liability company, partnership, association or other business entity (other than a corporation), a majority of partnership or other similar ownership interest thereof is at the time owned or controlled, directly or indirectly, by any Person or one or more Subsidiaries of that Person or a combination thereof. For purposes hereof, a Person or Persons shall be deemed to have a majority ownership interest in a limited liability company, partnership, association or other business entity (other than a corporation) if such Person or Persons shall be allocated a majority of limited liability company, partnership, association or other business entity gains or losses or shall be or control any managing director or general partner of such limited liability company, partnership, association or other business entity. For purposes hereof, references to a “Subsidiary” of any Person shall be given effect only at such times that such Person has one or more Subsidiaries, and, unless otherwise indicated, the term “Subsidiary” refers to a Subsidiary of the Company.

Substituted Member” means a Person that is admitted as a Member to the Company pursuant to Section 10.1.

 

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Takeover Law” means any moratorium, control share acquisition, business combination, fair price or other form of anti-takeover laws and regulations of any jurisdiction that may purport to be applicable to any Exchange or the transactions contemplated thereby.

Tax” or “Taxes” means any federal, state, local or foreign income, gross receipts, franchise, estimated, intangibles, alternative minimum, add-on minimum, sales, use, transfer, registration, value added, excise, natural resources, severance, stamp, occupation, premium, windfall profit, environmental, customs, duties, real property, personal property, capital stock, social security, unemployment, disability, payroll, license, employee or other withholding, or other tax, of any kind whatsoever, including any transferee liability and any interest, penalties or additions to tax or additional amounts in respect of the foregoing.

Tax Distribution” has the meaning set forth in Section 4.1(a).

Tax Receivable Agreement” means that certain Tax Receivable Agreement, dated as of the date hereof, by and among the Public Offering Entity, the Company and the recipients party thereto (the “TRA Recipients”), as it may be amended from time to time in accordance with its terms.

Tax Returns” means any reports, filings, tax returns or other disclosures in any form or manner with respect to federal, state, local or foreign income.

Taxable Year” means the Company’s accounting period for U.S. federal income tax purposes determined pursuant to Section 8.2.

Trading Day” means a day on which the New York Stock Exchange, or such other principal United States securities exchange on which the Class A Common Stock is listed, quoted or admitted to trading, is open for the transaction of business (unless such trading shall have been suspended for the entire day).

Transfer” means any sale, transfer, assignment, pledge, mortgage, exchange, hypothecation, grant of a security interest or other disposition or encumbrance of a Unit or other property, or any interest therein (including by operation of law and whether with or without consideration), or the acts thereof, but explicitly excluding conversions or, to the extent the Company is a party thereto, exchanges of one class of Equity Securities to or for another class of Equity Securities; provided, further, that (i) any Transfer of equity interests in any Fund Vehicle or Co-Investment Vehicle or any Person that holds a direct or indirect interest in such Fund Vehicle or Co-Investment Vehicle, in each case, that is not otherwise a Fund-to-Fund Transfer for value or a Transfer to a Continuation Fund by a Unitholder for value or (ii) any pledge or other encumbrance (and any related foreclosure or transfer to a lender or counterparty in lieu of foreclosure), including in connection with any fund financing, back-leverage or other financing arrangement (each a “Permitted Loan”), in each case of the foregoing clauses (i) and (ii), shall not be considered a “Transfer” except for the purposes of Sections 9.4(c) and (f) (and, for the avoidance of doubt, the action described in clause (i), and any pledge or other encumbrance described in clause (ii) above, shall not be considered to reduce the holdings of a Unitholder or its Permitted Transferee for any purpose under this Agreement). The terms “Transferee,” “Transferred” and other forms of the word “Transfer” shall have correlative meanings.

 

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Treasury Regulations” means the income tax regulations promulgated under the Code and effective as of the date hereof. Such term shall be deemed to include any future amendments to such regulations and any corresponding provisions of succeeding regulations.

Unit” means a unit in the Company representing a fractional part of the interests in any Profits, Losses, and Distributions and shall include Class A Common Units; provided, that any class, group or series of Units issued shall have the relative rights, powers and duties set forth in this Agreement.

Unit Ownership Ledger” has the meaning set forth in Section 3.1(a).

Unitholder” means any owner of one or more Units, but in each case only to the extent such Person is shown on the Company’s books and records as the owner of such Units as of the applicable date; provided that a Unitholder that has one or more Units re-registered in the name of a lender, counterparty, custodian or similar party to a Permitted Loan, solely as nominee or securities intermediary, shall not cease to be a Unitholder for so long as the Unitholder or its Affiliates continues to beneficially own such Units. For purposes of the Delaware Act, the Unitholders shall constitute the “members” (as defined in the Delaware Act) of the Company.

Value” means (a) for any stock option, the Market Price for the Trading Day immediately preceding the date of exercise of a stock option and (b) for any award other than a stock option, the Market Price for the Trading Day immediately preceding the Vesting Date.

Vesting Date” has the meaning set forth in Section 3.7(c)(ii).

Voting Securities” shall mean any securities of the Public Offering Entity which are entitled to vote generally in matters submitted for a vote of the Public Offering Entity’s stockholders or generally in the election of the Corporate Board.

WCAS Investor” means each of and collectively WCAS XIII Carbon Analytics Acquisition, L.P., WCAS XII Carbon Analytics Acquisition, L.P. and WCAS GP CW LLC.

WCAS Unitholders” means each of and collectively the WCAS Investors and any of their respective Permitted Transferees that holds any Units.

ARTICLE II

ORGANIZATIONAL MATTERS

2.1 Formation of the Company. The Company has been organized as a Delaware limited liability company by the filing of the Certificate with the Secretary of State of the State of Delaware under and pursuant to the Delaware Act and shall be continued in accordance with this Agreement. The rights and liabilities of the Unitholders shall be determined pursuant to the Delaware Act and this Agreement. To the extent that the rights or obligations of any Unitholders are different by reason of any provision of this Agreement than they would be in the absence of such provision, this Agreement, to the extent not prohibited by the Delaware Act, shall control over the Delaware Act. This Agreement shall constitute the “limited liability company agreement” for purposes of the Delaware Act.

 

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2.2 Limited Liability Company Agreement. The Unitholders hereby agree that during the term of the Company set forth in Section 2.6, the rights, powers and obligations of the Unitholders with respect to the Company will be determined in accordance with the terms and conditions of this Agreement and, except where the Delaware Act provides that such rights, powers and obligations specified in the Delaware Act shall apply “unless otherwise provided in a limited liability company agreement” or words of similar effect and such rights, powers and obligations are set forth in this Agreement, the Delaware Act; provided, that notwithstanding the foregoing, Section 18-210 of the Delaware Act (entitled “Contractual Appraisal Rights”) and Section 18-305 of the Delaware Act (entitled “Access to and Confidentiality of Information; Records”) shall not apply or be incorporated into this Agreement (but with it being understood that this proviso shall not affect the obligations of the Company under Article VII). To the extent that the rights or obligations of any Unitholder are different by reason of any provision of this Agreement than they would be in the absence of such provision, this Agreement shall, to the extent permitted by the Delaware Act, control.

2.3 Name. The name of the Company shall be “CWAN Holdings, LLC”. The Manager may change the name of the Company at any time and from time to time. Notification of any such change shall be given to all Unitholders. The Company’s business may be conducted under its name and/or any other name or names deemed advisable by the Manager.

2.4 Purpose. The nature of the business or purposes to be conducted or promoted by the Company is to engage in any lawful act or activity for which limited liability companies may be organized under the Delaware Act. The Company may engage in any and all activities necessary, desirable or incidental to the accomplishment of the foregoing. Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, nothing set forth herein shall be construed as authorizing the Company to possess any purpose or power, or to do any act or thing, forbidden by law to a limited liability company organized pursuant to the Delaware Act.

2.5 Principal Office; Registered Office. The principal office of the Company shall be at such place as the Manager may from time to time designate. The Company may maintain offices at such other place or places as the Manager deems advisable. The address of the registered office of the Company in the State of Delaware shall be the office of the initial registered agent named in the Certificate or such other office (which need not be a place of business of the Company) as the Manager may designate from time to time in the manner provided by applicable law, and the registered agent for service of process on the Company in the State of Delaware at such registered office shall be the registered agent named in the Certificate or such Person or Persons as the Manager may designate from time to time in the manner provided by applicable law.

2.6 Term. The term of the Company commenced upon the filing of the Certificate in accordance with the Delaware Act and shall continue in existence until termination and dissolution thereof in accordance with the provisions of Article XII.

2.7 No State-Law Partnership. The Unitholders intend that the Company not be a partnership (including a limited partnership) or joint venture, and that no Unitholder be a partner or joint venturer of any other Unitholder by virtue of this Agreement, for any purposes other than as set forth in the last sentence of this Section 2.7, and neither this Agreement nor any other document entered into by the Company or any Unitholder relating to the subject matter hereof

 

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shall be construed to suggest otherwise so long as the Company has more than one Member for tax purposes. The Unitholders intend that the Company shall be treated as a partnership for federal and, if applicable, state or local income tax purposes, and that each Unitholder and the Company shall file all Tax returns and shall otherwise take all Tax and financial reporting positions in a manner consistent with such treatment.

ARTICLE III

CAPITAL CONTRIBUTIONS

3.1 Unitholders.

(a) Capital Contributions; Unit Ownership Ledger. The Manager shall create and maintain a ledger (the “Unit Ownership Ledger”) setting forth the name and address of each Unitholder, the number of each class of Units held of record by each such Unitholder, and the amount of the Capital Contribution made with respect to each class of Units and the date of such Capital Contribution. Upon any change in the number or ownership of outstanding Units (whether upon an issuance of Units, a Transfer of Units, a cancellation of Units or otherwise), the Manager shall amend and update the Unit Ownership Ledger. Absent manifest error, the ownership interests recorded on the Unit Ownership Ledger shall be conclusive record of the Units that have been issued and are outstanding. Each Unitholder named in the Unit Ownership Ledger has made (or shall be deemed to have made) Capital Contributions to the Company as set forth in the Unit Ownership Ledger in exchange for the Units specified in the Unit Ownership Ledger. Any reference in this Agreement to the Unit Ownership Ledger shall be deemed a reference to the Unit Ownership Ledger as amended and in effect from time to time. The Company may (but need not) issue certificates representing the Units (such Units then being “Certificated Units”). The Company may issue fractional Units. The ownership by a Member of Units shall entitle such Member to allocations of net Profits and net Losses and Distributions of cash and other property as set forth in Article IV.

(i) In order to effect the Recapitalization, the number of Units that were issued and outstanding and held by the Unitholders prior to the IPO are hereby converted, as of the consummation of the IPO, and after giving effect to such conversion and the other transactions related to the Recapitalization, into the number of Class A Common Units set forth opposite the name of the respective Member on the Unit Ownership Ledger, and such Class A Common Units are hereby issued and outstanding and the holders of such Class A Common Units are Members hereunder.

(ii) To the extent the underwriters in the IPO exercise the over-allotment option in whole or in part, upon the exercise of the over-allotment option, the Public Offering Entity will contribute a portion of the net proceeds thereof to the Company in exchange for newly issued Class A Common Units, and such issuance of additional Class A Common Units shall be reflected on the Unit Ownership Ledger (the Over-Allotment Contribution”). The number of Class A Common Units issued in the Over-Allotment Contribution, in the aggregate, shall be equal to the number of shares of Class A Common Stock issued by the Public Offering Entity in such exercise of the over-allotment option. Immediately following the consummation of the IPO, the Public Offering Entity shall use the IPO Net Proceeds to effect the IPO Unit Acquisition.

 

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(b) Authorization and Issuance of Additional Units. Except as otherwise determined by the Manager in connection with a contribution of cash or other assets by the Public Offering Entity to the Company, the Company and the Public Offering Entity shall undertake all actions, including, without limitation, an issuance, reclassification, distribution, division or recapitalization, with respect to the Class A Common Units, on the one hand, and the Class A Common Stock and Class D Common Stock, as applicable, on the other, to maintain at all times (i) a one-to-one ratio between the number of Class A Common Units owned by the Public Offering Entity, directly or indirectly, and the number of outstanding shares of Class A Common Stock and Class D Common Stock, collectively, and (ii) a one-to-one ratio between the number of Class A Common Units owned by Members (other than the Public Offering Entity and its subsidiaries), directly or indirectly, and the number of outstanding shares of Class B Common Stock and Class C Common Stock, collectively, owned by such Members, directly or indirectly, in each case, disregarding, for purposes of maintaining the one-to-one ratio, (A) shares of common stock of the Public Offering Entity issuable pursuant to awards of any type granted pursuant to an incentive plan or agreement that are not vested pursuant to the terms thereof, (B) treasury stock or (C) preferred stock or other debt or equity securities (including, without limitation, warrants, options or rights) issued by the Public Offering Entity that are convertible into or exercisable or exchangeable for Class A Common Stock or Class D Common Stock (except to the extent the net proceeds from such other securities, including any exercise or purchase price payable upon conversion, exercise or exchange thereof, has been contributed by the Public Offering Entity to the equity capital of the Company). Except as otherwise determined by the Manager in connection with a contribution of cash or other assets by the Public Offering Entity to the Company, in the event the Public Offering Entity issues, transfers or delivers from treasury stock or repurchases Class A Common Stock or Class D Common Stock in a transaction not contemplated in this Agreement, the Manager and the Public Offering Entity shall take all actions such that, after giving effect to all such issuances, transfers, deliveries or repurchases, the number of outstanding Class A Common Units owned, directly or indirectly, by the Public Offering Entity will equal on a one-for-one basis the number of outstanding shares of Class A Common Stock and Class D Common Stock. Except as otherwise determined by the Manager in connection with a contribution of cash or other assets by the Public Offering Entity to the Company, in the event the Public Offering Entity issues, transfers or delivers from treasury stock or repurchases or redeems the Public Offering Entity’s preferred stock in a transaction not contemplated in this Agreement, the Manager and the Public Offering Entity shall take all actions such that, after giving effect to all such issuances, transfers, deliveries, repurchases or redemptions, the Public Offering Entity, directly or indirectly, holds (in the case of any issuance, transfer or delivery) or ceases to hold (in the case of any repurchase or redemption) equity interests in the Company which (in the good faith determination by the Manager) are in the aggregate substantially economically equivalent to the outstanding preferred stock of the Public Offering Entity so issued, transferred, delivered, repurchased or redeemed. Except as otherwise determined by the Manager in its reasonable discretion, the Company and the Public Offering Entity shall not undertake any subdivision (by any Class A Common Unit split, stock split, distribution, stock distribution, reclassification, division, recapitalization or similar event) or combination (by reverse Class A Common Unit split, reverse stock split, reclassification, division, recapitalization or similar event) of the Class A Common Units, Class A Common Stock or Class D Common Stock, as applicable, that is not accompanied by an identical subdivision or combination of Class A Common Stock, Class B Common Stock, Class C Common Stock, Class D Common Stock or Class A Common Units, as

 

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applicable, to maintain at all times (x) a one-to-one ratio between the number of Class A Common Units owned, directly or indirectly, by the Public Offering Entity and the number of outstanding shares of Class A Common Stock and Class D Common Stock or (y) a one-to-one ratio between the number of Class A Common Units owned by Members (other than the Public Offering Entity and its Subsidiaries) and the number of outstanding shares of Class B Common Stock and Class C Common Stock, in each case, unless such action is necessary to maintain at all times a one-to-one ratio between either the number of Class A Common Units owned, directly or indirectly, by the Public Offering Entity and the number of outstanding shares of Class A Common Stock and Class D Common Stock or the number of Class A Common Units owned by Members (other than the Public Offering Entity and its subsidiaries) and the number of outstanding shares of Class B Common Stock and Class C Common Stock as contemplated by the first sentence of this Section 3.1(b). Except as otherwise determined by the Manager in connection with the use of cash or other assets held by the Public Offering Entity, if at any time, any shares of Class A Common Stock or Class D Common Stock are repurchased or redeemed (whether by exercise of a put or call, automatically or by means of another arrangement) by the Public Offering Entity for cash, then the Manager shall cause the Company, immediately prior to such repurchase or redemption of Class A Common Stock or Class D Common Stock, to redeem a corresponding number of Class A Common Units held (directly or indirectly) by the Public Offering Entity, at an aggregate redemption price equal to the aggregate purchase or redemption price of the shares of Class A Common Stock or Class D Common Stock being repurchased or redeemed by the Public Offering Entity (plus any expenses related thereto) and upon such other terms as are the same for the shares of Class A Common Stock or Class D Common Stock being repurchased or redeemed by the Public Offering Entity. Notwithstanding any provision to the contrary contained in this Agreement, the Company shall not make any repurchase or redemption if such repurchase or redemption would violate any applicable Law.

(c) Certain Representations and Warranties by Unitholders. By executing this Agreement (or, after the date hereof, any counterpart or joinder to this Agreement) and in connection with the issuance of Equity Securities to such Unitholder, each Unitholder represents and warrants to the Company as follows:

(i) Such Unitholder has, in the case of an entity, all of the necessary corporate or other entity power and authority, or, in the case of an individual, the legal capacity, to execute and deliver this Agreement and each of the other agreements contemplated hereby to be executed by such Unitholder, and to perform its obligations hereunder and thereunder.

(ii) The Equity Securities being acquired by such Unitholder pursuant to this Agreement or otherwise will be acquired for such Unitholder’s own account and not with a view to, or intention of, distribution thereof in violation of the Securities Act or any applicable state securities laws, and such Equity Securities will not be disposed of in contravention of the Securities Act or any applicable state securities laws.

(iii) Such Unitholder is an “accredited investor” as such term is defined under the Securities Act and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder and/or such Unitholder has such knowledge and experience in financial, tax and business matters as to enable such Member to evaluate the merits and risks of such Unitholder’s investment in the Company and to make an informed investment decision with respect thereto.

 

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(iv) Such Unitholder has had an opportunity to ask questions and receive answers concerning the terms and conditions of the offering of such Equity Securities and has had full access to such other information concerning any Group Company as he, she or it has requested.

(v) Such Unitholder is able to bear the economic risk of his, her or its investment in the Equity Securities for an indefinite period of time because the Equity Securities have not been registered under the Securities Act or applicable state securities laws and are subject to substantial restrictions on Transfer set forth herein and, therefore, cannot be sold unless subsequently registered under the Securities Act and applicable state securities laws or an exemption from such registration is available and in compliance with such restrictions on Transfer.

(vi) Such Unitholder has received and carefully read a copy of this Agreement. This Agreement and each of the other agreements contemplated hereby to be executed by such Unitholder (including any Equity Agreement) constitute the legal, valid and binding obligation of such Unitholder, enforceable in accordance with their terms (subject to bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium and similar laws of general application relating to or affecting creditors’ rights and to general equity principles), and the execution, delivery and performance of this Agreement and such other agreements do not and will not conflict with, violate or cause a breach of any agreement, contract or instrument to which such Unitholder is a party or any judgment, order or decree to which such Unitholder is subject or create any conflict of interest with any Group Company, or any of their respective Affiliates, or any of their present or former customers or other business relations.

(vii) Such Unitholder has been given the opportunity to consult with independent legal counsel regarding his, her or its rights and obligations under this Agreement and has consulted with such independent legal counsel regarding the foregoing (or, after carefully reviewing this Agreement, has freely decided not to consult with independent legal counsel), fully understands the terms and conditions contained herein and therein and intends for such terms to be binding upon and enforceable against him, her or it.

(d) Maintenance of Capital Accounts. The Company shall maintain a separate Capital Account for each Unitholder according to the rules of Treasury Regulation Section 1.704-1(b)(2)(iv). For this purpose, the Company may, in the Manager’s discretion, upon the occurrence of the events specified in Treasury Regulation Section 1.704-1(b)(2)(iv)(f), increase or decrease the Capital Accounts in accordance with the rules of such regulation and Treasury Regulation Section 1.704-1(b)(2)(iv)(g) to reflect a revaluation of Company property and shall, if required, adjust them as provided in Treasury Regulation Section 1.704-1(b)(2)(iv)(s).

 

 

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Without limiting the foregoing, each Unitholder’s Capital Account shall be adjusted:

(i) by adding any additional Capital Contributions made by such Unitholder in consideration for the issuance of Units;

(ii) by deducting any amounts paid to such Unitholder in connection with the redemption or other repurchase by the Company of Units;

(iii) by adding Profits allocated in favor of such Unitholder and subtracting any Losses of deduction and allocated in favor of such Unitholder; and

(iv) by deducting any Distributions paid in cash or other assets to such Unitholder by the Company.

(e) Computation of Income, Gain, Loss and Deduction Items. For purposes of computing the amount of any item of Company income, gain, loss or deduction in calculating the net Profit and net Loss to be allocated pursuant to Article IV and to be reflected in the Capital Accounts, the determination, recognition and classification of any such item shall be the same as its determination, recognition and classification for U.S. federal income tax purposes (including any method of depreciation, cost recovery or amortization used for this purpose); provided, that:

(i) The computation of all items of income, gain, loss and deduction shall include those items described in Code Section 705(a)(1)(B) or Code Section 705(a)(2)(B) and Treasury Regulation Section 1.704-1(b)(2)(iv)(i), without regard to the fact that such items are not includable in gross income or are not deductible for U.S. federal income tax purposes.

(ii) If the Book Value of any Company property is adjusted pursuant to Treasury Regulation Section 1.704-1(b)(2)(iv)(e), (f) or (s), then the amount of such adjustment shall be taken into account as gain or loss from the disposition of such property.

(iii) Items of income, gain, loss or deduction attributable to the disposition of Company property having a Book Value that differs from its adjusted basis for tax purposes shall be computed by reference to the Book Value of such property.

(iv) Items of depreciation, amortization and other cost recovery deductions with respect to Company property having a Book Value that differs from its adjusted basis for tax purposes shall be computed by reference to the property’s Book Value in accordance with Treasury Regulation Section 1.704-1(b)(2)(iv)(g).

(v) To the extent that an adjustment to the adjusted tax basis of any Company asset pursuant to Code Sections 732(d), 734(b) or 743(b) is required, pursuant to Treasury Regulation Section 1.704-1(b)(2)(iv)(m), to be taken into account in determining Capital Accounts, the amount of such adjustment to the Capital Accounts shall be treated as an item of gain (if the adjustment increases the basis of the asset) or loss (if the adjustment decreases such basis).

(vi) Items of income, gain, loss and deduction allocated pursuant to Section 4.3 shall be excluded.

 

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3.2 Negative Capital Accounts. No Unitholder shall be required to pay to any other Unitholder or the Company any deficit or negative balance that may exist from time to time in such Unitholder’s Capital Account (including upon and after dissolution of the Company).

3.3 No Withdrawal. No Person shall be entitled to withdraw any part of such Person’s Capital Contributions or Capital Account or to receive any Distribution from the Company, except as expressly provided herein.

3.4 Loans From Unitholders. Loans by Unitholders to the Company shall not be considered Capital Contributions. If (with the consent of the Manager) any Unitholder loans funds to the Company, then the making of such loan shall not result in any increase in the amount of the Capital Account of such Unitholder. The amount of any such loan shall be a debt of the Company to such Unitholder and shall be payable or collectible in accordance with the terms and conditions upon which such loan is made.

3.5 Distributions In-Kind. To the extent that the Company distributes property in-kind to the Unitholders, the Company shall be treated as making a Distribution equal to the Fair Market Value of such property for purposes of Section 4.1 and such property shall be treated as if it were sold for an amount equal to its Fair Market Value and any resulting gain or loss shall be allocated to the Unitholders’ Capital Accounts in accordance with Sections 4.2 through 4.4. Any Distribution of property-in kind shall be made to each Member in proportion to the number of Units held by each Unitholder, as determined by the Manager in good faith.

3.6 Transfer of Capital Accounts. The original Capital Account established for each Substituted Member shall be in the same amount as the Capital Account of the Member (or portion thereof) to which such Substituted Member succeeds, at the time such Substituted Member is admitted to the Company. The Capital Account of any Member whose interest in the Company shall be increased or decreased by means of the Transfer to it of all or part of the Units of another Member shall be appropriately adjusted to reflect such transfer or repurchase. Any reference in this Agreement to a Capital Contribution of or Distribution to a Member that has succeeded any other Member shall include any Capital Contributions or Distributions previously made by or to the former Member on account of the Units of such former Member transferred to such Member.

3.7 Corporate Equity Plans.

(a) Options Granted to Persons other than Company Employees. If at any time or from time to time, in connection with any Equity Plan, a stock option granted over shares of Class A Common Stock to a Person other than a Company Employee is duly exercised the following events will be deemed to have occurred:

(i) The Public Offering Entity shall, as soon as practicable after such exercise, make a Capital Contribution to the Company in an amount equal to the exercise price paid to the Public Offering Entity by such exercising Person in connection with the exercise of such stock option.

 

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(ii) Notwithstanding the amount of the Capital Contribution actually made pursuant to Section 3.7(a)(i), the Public Offering Entity shall be deemed to have contributed to the Company as a Capital Contribution, in lieu of the Capital Contribution actually made and in consideration of additional Class A Common Units, an amount equal to the Value of a share of Class A Common Stock as of the date of such exercise multiplied by the number of shares of Class A Common Stock then being issued by the Public Offering Entity in connection with the exercise of such stock option.

(iii) The Public Offering Entity shall receive in exchange for such Capital Contributions (as deemed made under Section 3.7(a)(ii)), a number of Class A Common Units equal to the number of shares of Class A Common Stock for which such option was exercised.

(b) Options Granted to LLC Employees. If at any time or from time to time, in connection with any Equity Plan, a stock option granted over shares of Class A Common Stock to an employee of, or other service provided to, the Company (or any of its Subsidiaries, each a “Company Employee”) is duly exercised the following events will be deemed to occur:

(i) The Optionee shall acquire from the Public Offering Entity, pursuant to the terms and conditions of the Equity Plan and award agreement governing such stock option (including, for the avoidance of doubt, with respect to the consideration payable by such Optionee for such stock), the number of shares of Class A Common Stock subject to such stock option less any shares of Class A Common Stock, if any, withheld to cover the exercise price or any taxes associated with the exercise of such stock option at the time of such exercise

(ii) The Public Offering Entity shall sell to the Optionee, and the Optionee shall purchase from the Public Offering Entity, for a cash price per share equal to the Value of a share of Class A Common Stock at the time of the exercise, the number of shares of Class A Common Stock equal to the quotient of (x) the exercise price payable by the Optionee in connection with the exercise of such stock option divided by (y) the Value of a share of Class A Common Stock at the time of such exercise.

(iii) The Public Offering Entity shall sell to the Company (or if the Optionee is an employee of, or other service provider to, a Subsidiary, the Public Offering Entity shall sell to such Subsidiary), and the Company (or such Subsidiary, as applicable) shall purchase from the Public Offering Entity, a number of shares of Class A Common Stock equal to the difference between (x) the number of shares of Class A Common Stock as to which such stock option is being exercised minus (y) the number of shares of Class A Common Stock withheld from or otherwise sold by the Optionee in connection with the exercise of such option as described in Section 3.7(b)(i) hereof. The purchase price per share of Class A Common Stock for such sale of shares of Class A Common Stock to the Company (or such Subsidiary) shall be the Value of a share of Class A Common Stock as of the date of exercise of such stock option.

(iv) The Company shall transfer to the Optionee (or if the Optionee is an employee of, or other service provider to a Subsidiary, the Subsidiary shall transfer to the Optionee) at no additional cost to such Company Employee and as additional compensation (and not a distribution) to such Company Employee, the number of shares of Class A Common Stock described in Section 3.7(b)(ii). For the avoidance of doubt, the Employee shall not be entitled to receive shares of Common Stock under both this Section and Section 3.7(b)(i).

 

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(v) The Public Offering Entity shall, as soon as practicable after such exercise, make a Capital Contribution to the Company in an amount equal to all proceeds received (from whatever source, but excluding any payment in respect of payroll taxes or other withholdings) by the Public Offering Entity in connection with the exercise of such stock option. The Public Offering Entity shall receive for such Capital Contribution a number of Class A Common Units equal to the number of shares of Class A Common Stock for which such option was exercised.

(c) Equity Awards Other than Options Granted to Persons other than Company Employees. If at any time or from time to time, in connection with any Equity Plan, any shares of Class A Common Stock are issued to a Person other than a Company Employee (including any shares of Class A Common Stock that are subject to forfeiture in the event such Person terminates his or her services with the Company or any Affiliate) in consideration for services performed for the Company or any Affiliate (any such award an “Incentive Equity Award”):

(i) The Public Offering Entity shall issue such number of shares of Class A Common Stock as are to be issued to such Person in accordance with the Equity Plan in respect of such Incentive Equity Award;

(ii) On the date or dates that any portion of such Incentive Equity Award becomes vested, the following events will occur: (1) the Public Offering Entity shall sell a number of shares of Class A Common Stock to the Company equal to the number of shares in respect of such Incentive Equity Award which so vested for a purchase price equal to the Value of such shares of Class A Common Stock, and (2) the Public Offering Entity shall contribute the purchase price for such shares of Class A Common Stock to the Company as a Capital Contribution; and

(iii) The Company shall issue to the Public Offering Entity on such vesting date a number of Class A Common Units equal to the number of shares of Class A Common Stock issued under Section 3.7(c)(i) in consideration for a Capital Contribution that the Public Offering Entity is deemed to make to the Company pursuant to clause (2) of Section 3.7(c)(ii) above.

(d) Equity Awards Other than Options Granted to Company Employees. If at any time or from time to time, in connection with any Equity Plan, an Incentive Equity Award is issued to a Company Employee (including any shares of Class A Common Stock that are subject to forfeiture in the event such Company Employee terminates his or her employment with the Company or any Affiliate) in consideration for services performed for the Company or any Affiliate, the following events will be deemed to have occurred:

(i) The Public Offering Entity shall issue such number of shares of Class A Common Stock as are to be issued to such Company Employee in accordance with the Equity Plan in respect of such Incentive Equity Award;

 

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(ii) On the date or dates (such date(s), the “Taxable Date(s)”) that the Value of any portion of such Incentive Equity Award is includible in taxable income of such Company Employee, the following events will occur: (1) the Public Offering Entity shall sell such a number of shares of Class A Common Stock to the Company (or if such Company Employee is an employee of, or other service provider to a Subsidiary, to such Subsidiary) equal to the number of shares in respect of such Incentive Equity Award that so vested for a purchase price equal to the Value of such shares of Class A Common Stock, (2) the Public Offering Entity shall contribute the purchase price for such shares of Class A Common Stock to the Company as a Capital Contribution, and (3) in the case where such Company Employee is an employee of a Subsidiary, the Company shall be deemed to have contributed such amount to the capital of the Subsidiary; and

(iii) The Company shall issue to the Public Offering Entity on the Taxable Date a number of Class A Common Units equal to the number of shares of Class A Common Stock issued under Section 3.7(d)(i) in consideration for a Capital Contribution that the Public Offering Entity is deemed to make to the Company pursuant to clause (2) of Section 3.7(d)(ii) above.

(e) Future Stock Incentive Plans. Nothing in this Agreement shall be construed or applied to preclude or restrain the Public Offering Entity from adopting, modifying or terminating stock incentive plans for the benefit of employees, directors or other business associates of the Public Offering Entity, the Company or any of their respective Affiliates. The Members acknowledge and agree that, in the event that any such plan is adopted, modified or terminated by the Public Offering Entity, amendments to this Section 3.7 may become necessary or advisable and that any approval or consent to any such amendments requested by the Public Offering Entity shall be deemed granted by the Manager and the Unitholders, as applicable, without the requirement of any further consent or acknowledgement of any other Unitholder.

(f) Anti-dilution Adjustments. For all purposes of this Section 3.7, the number of shares of Class A Common Stock and the corresponding number of Class A Common Units shall be determined after giving effect to all anti-dilution or similar adjustments that are applicable, as of the date of exercise or vesting, to the option, warrant, restricted stock or other equity interest that is being exercised or becomes vested under the applicable Equity Plan and applicable Equity Agreement or grant documentation.

 

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ARTICLE IV

DISTRIBUTIONS, ALLOCATIONS AND REDEMPTIONS

4.1 Distributions.

(a) Tax Distributions.

(i) So long as the Company is treated as a partnership for U.S. federal income tax purposes, to the extent that funds of the Company are or may be available for distribution by the Company without violation of applicable law or any applicable agreement to which the Company is a party, and subject to the retention and establishment of reserves, or payment to third parties, of such funds as the Manager deems necessary or desirable in its sole discretion with respect to the reasonable needs and obligations of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, with respect to each Taxable Year, the Company shall make Distributions to each Unitholder in an amount of cash (each, a “Tax Distribution”) in accordance with, and to the extent of, such Member’s Assumed Tax Liability. Tax Distributions pursuant to this Section 4.1(a)(i) shall be estimated by the Company on a quarterly basis and, to the extent feasible, shall be distributed to the Unitholders on a quarterly basis on or prior to April 15th, June 15th, September 15th and January 15th (of the succeeding year) (or such other dates for which individuals or corporations (whichever is earlier) are required to make quarterly estimated tax payments for U.S. federal income tax purposes) (each, a “Quarterly Tax Distribution”), provided, that the foregoing shall not restrict the Company from making a Tax Distribution on any other date. Quarterly Tax Distributions shall take into account the estimated taxable income or loss of the Company for the Taxable Year through the end of the relevant quarterly period. A final accounting for Tax Distributions shall be made for each Taxable Year after the allocation of the Company’s actual net taxable income or loss has been determined and any shortfall in the amount of Tax Distributions a Unitholder received for such Fiscal Year based on such final accounting shall promptly be distributed to such Unitholder.

(ii) To the extent a Unitholder otherwise would be entitled to receive less than its Percentage Interest of the aggregate Tax Distributions to be paid pursuant to this Section 4.1(a) (other than any distributions made pursuant to Section 4.1(a)(v)) on any given date, the Tax Distributions to such Unitholder shall be increased to ensure that all Tax Distributions made pursuant to this Section 4.1(a) are made pro rata in accordance with the Unitholders’ respective Percentage Interests. If, on the date of a Tax Distribution, there are insufficient funds on hand to distribute to the Unitholders the full amount of the Tax Distributions to which such Unitholders are otherwise entitled, Distributions pursuant to this Section 4.1(a) shall be made to the Unitholders to the extent of available funds in accordance with their Percentage Interests and the Company shall make future Tax Distributions (pro rata in accordance with the Unitholders’ respective Percentage Interests) as soon as funds become available sufficient to pay the remaining portion of the Tax Distributions to which such Unitholders are otherwise entitled.

(iii) In the event of any audit by, or similar event with, a taxing authority that affects the calculation of any Unitholder’s Assumed Tax Liability for any Taxable Year beginning after December 31, 2020 (other than an audit conducted pursuant to the Revised Partnership Audit Provisions for which no election is made pursuant to Section 6226 thereof and the Treasury Regulations promulgated thereunder), or in the event the Company files an amended tax return, each Unitholder’s Assumed Tax Liability with respect to such year shall be recalculated by giving effect to such event (for the avoidance of doubt, taking into account interest or penalties). Any shortfall in the amount of Tax Distributions the Unitholders and former Unitholders received for the relevant Taxable Years based on such recalculated Assumed Tax Liability promptly shall be distributed to such Unitholders and the successors of such former Unitholders, except, for the avoidance of doubt, to the extent Distributions were made to such Unitholders and former Unitholders pursuant to this Section 4.1(a) in the relevant Taxable Years sufficient to cover such shortfall.

 

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(iv) Notwithstanding the foregoing, Tax Distributions pursuant to this Section 4.1(a) (other than, for the avoidance of doubt, any distributions made pursuant to Section 4.1(a)(v)), if any, shall be made to a Unitholder only to the extent all previous Tax Distributions to such Unitholder pursuant to Section 4.1(a) with respect to the Fiscal Year are less than the Tax Distributions such Unitholder otherwise would have been entitled to receive with respect to such Taxable Year pursuant to this Section 4.1(a).

(v) Notwithstanding the foregoing and anything to the contrary in this Agreement, following the Effective Date, no Member shall have any further right to any Tax Distributions (as defined in the Prior Agreement) pursuant to Section 4.1(a) of the Prior Agreement.

(b) Other Distributions. Subject to Section 4.1(a), the Manager may (but shall not be obligated to) cause the Company to make Distributions at any time or from time to time out of funds or property legally available therefor, and on such terms as the Manager in its sole discretion shall determine (including the payment date of such Distributions) and using the record date as the Manager may designate. Each Distribution shall be made to the holders of Class A Common Units pro rata in accordance with each Unitholder’s Percentage Interest.

(c) Exception. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Section 4.1, neither the Company nor the Manager shall be obligated to make any Distribution if Section 18-607 of the Delaware Act (or, if such Delaware Act is amended, any successor provision) prevents the Company from making such Distribution.

4.2 Allocations. Except as otherwise provided in Section 4.3 (and, to the extent applicable, Section 4.5), each Taxable Year, after adjusting each Unitholder’s Capital Account for all contributions and distributions with respect to such Taxable Year, net Profits or net Losses shall be allocated among the Unitholders in a manner such that, after such allocations have been made, each Unitholder’s Capital Account balance (which may be a positive, negative, or zero balance) will equal (a) the amount that would be distributed to each such Unitholder, determined as if the Company were to (i) dissolve and have its affairs wound up (ii) sell all of its assets for their Book Values, (iii) satisfy all of its liabilities in accordance with their terms with the proceeds from such sale (limited, with respect to nonrecourse liabilities, to the Book Values of the assets securing such liabilities), and (iv) distribute the remaining proceeds pursuant to Section 4.1(b) to the Unitholder’s immediately after making such allocation, minus (b) the sum of (x) such Unitholder’s share of the Company Minimum Gain and partner nonrecourse debt minimum gain (as defined in Treasury Regulation Section 1.704-2(i)(2)), computed immediately prior to the hypothetical sale of assets. Special Allocations . The following special allocations shall be applied prior to any allocations under Section 4.2.

 

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(a) Unitholder Nonrecourse Debt Minimum Gain Chargeback. Losses attributable to partner nonrecourse debt (as defined in Treasury Regulation Section 1.704-2(b)(4)) shall be allocated in the manner required by Treasury Regulation Section 1.704-2(i). If there is a net decrease during a Taxable Year in partner nonrecourse debt minimum gain (as defined in Treasury Regulation Section 1.704-2(i)(3)), then Profits for such Taxable Year (and, if necessary, for subsequent Taxable Years) shall be allocated to the Unitholders in the amounts and of such character as determined according to Treasury Regulation Section 1.704-2(i)(4). This Section 4.3(a) is intended to be a “partner nonrecourse debt minimum gain chargeback” provision that complies with the requirements of Treasury Regulation Section 1.704-2(i)(4) and shall be interpreted in a manner consistent therewith.

(b) Minimum Gain Chargeback. Except as otherwise provided in Section 4.3(a), if there is a net decrease in the Minimum Gain during any Taxable Year, then each Unitholder shall be allocated Profits for such Taxable Year (and, if necessary, for subsequent Taxable Years) in the amounts and of such character as determined according to Treasury Regulation Section 1.704-2(f). This Section 4.3(b) is intended to be a Minimum Gain chargeback provision that complies with the requirements of Treasury Regulation Section 1.704-2(f), and shall be interpreted in a manner consistent therewith.

(c) Qualified Income Offset. If any Unitholder that unexpectedly receives an adjustment, allocation or distribution described in Treasury Regulation Sections 1.704-1(b)(2)(ii)(d)(4), (5) and (6) has a negative Adjusted Capital Account Balance as of the end of any Taxable Year, computed after the application of Sections 4.3(a) and 4.3(b) but before the application of any other provision of this Article IV, then Profits for such Taxable Year shall be allocated to such Unitholder in proportion to, and to the extent of, such negative Adjusted Capital Account Balance. This Section 4.3(c) is intended to be a qualified income offset provision as described in Treasury Regulation Section 1.704-1(b)(2)(ii)(d) and shall be interpreted in a manner consistent therewith.

(d) Nonrecourse Deductions. Nonrecourse deductions (as determined according to Treasury Regulation Section 1.704-2(b)(1)) for any Taxable Year shall be allocated among the Unitholders in proportion to the number of Units held by each Unitholder.

(e) Regulatory Allocations. The allocations set forth in Sections 4.3(a) through 4.3(d) (the “Regulatory Allocations”) are intended to comply with certain requirements of Sections 1.704-1(b) and 1.704-2 of the Treasury Regulations. The Regulatory Allocations may not be consistent with the manner in which the Unitholders intend to allocate Profit and Loss of the Company or make Distributions. Accordingly, notwithstanding the other provisions of this Article IV, but subject to the Regulatory Allocations, income, gain, deduction, and loss shall be reallocated among the Unitholders so as to eliminate the effect of the Regulatory Allocations and thereby cause the respective Capital Accounts of the Unitholders to be in the amounts (or as close thereto as possible) they would have been if Profit and Loss (and such other items of income, gain, deduction and loss) had been allocated without reference to the Regulatory Allocations. In general, the Unitholders anticipate that this will be accomplished by specially allocating other Profit and Loss (and such other items of income, gain, deduction and loss) among the Unitholders so that the net amount of the Regulatory Allocations and such special allocations to each such Unitholder is zero. In addition, if in any Taxable Year or portion thereof there is a decrease in partnership Minimum Gain, or in partner nonrecourse debt Minimum Gain, and application of the Minimum Gain chargeback requirements set forth in Section 4.3(a) or Section 4.3(b) would cause a distortion in the economic arrangement among the Unitholders, then the Unitholders may, if they do not expect that the Company will have sufficient other income to correct such distortion, request the Internal Revenue Service to waive either or both of such Minimum Gain chargeback requirements. If such request is granted, then this Agreement shall be applied in such instance as if it did not contain such Minimum Gain chargeback requirement.

 

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(f) Company Loss Allocations. Company Losses shall not be allocated to a Unitholder if such allocation of Losses would cause the Unitholder to have a negative Adjusted Capital Account Balance. Company Losses that cannot be allocated to a Unitholder shall be allocated to the other Unitholders; provided, however, that if no Unitholder may be allocated Company Losses due to the limitations of this Section 4.3(f), then Company Losses shall be allocated to all Unitholders in accordance with their Percentage Interests.

4.3 Tax Allocations.

(a) Allocations Generally. The income, gains, losses, deductions and credits of the Company will be allocated for U.S. federal, state and local income tax purposes among the Unitholders in accordance with the allocation of such income, gains, losses, deductions and credits among the Unitholders for computing their Capital Accounts; provided, that if any such allocation is not permitted by the Code or other applicable law, then the Company’s subsequent income, gains, losses, deductions and credits will be allocated among the Unitholders so as to reflect as nearly as possible the allocation set forth herein in computing their Capital Accounts. The Company shall, to the extent necessary, effect the “corrective allocations” described in Treasury Regulation Section 1.704-1(b)(2)(iv)(s)(4), and this Agreement shall be interpreted and applied in a manner consistent therewith.

(b) Code Section 704(c) Allocations. Items of Company taxable income, gain, loss and deduction with respect to any property contributed to the capital of the Company shall be allocated among the Unitholders in accordance with Code Section 704(c) so as to take account of any variation between the adjusted basis of such property to Company for U.S. federal income tax purposes and its Book Value using any permissible method under Section 704(c), subject to the last sentence in this Section 4.3(b). In addition, if the Book Value of any Company asset is adjusted pursuant to the requirements of Treasury Regulation Sections 1.704-1(b)(2)(iv)(e), (f) or (s), then subsequent allocations of items of taxable income, gain, loss and deduction with respect to such asset shall take account of any variation between the adjusted basis of such asset for federal income tax purposes and its Book Value using any permissible method under Code Section 704(c), subject to the following sentence. The Manager shall determine all allocations pursuant to this Section 4.3(b) using the traditional method under Treasury Regulation Section 1.704-3(b); provided that the Manager may elect to make curative allocations of the resulting tax gain or loss from the sale or disposition of any property in a manner that is intended to offset the effect of the cumulative amount of any “ceiling rule limitations” with respect to allocations of depreciation or amortization deductions in respect of such property in the current and all prior Taxable Years, as outlined in Treasury Regulations Section 1.704-3(c)(3).

(c) Allocation of Tax Credits, Tax Credit Recapture, Etc. Allocations of Tax credits, Tax credit recapture, and any items related thereto shall be allocated to the Unitholders according to their interests in such items as determined by the Manager taking into account the principles of Treasury Regulation Section 1.704-1(b)(4)(ii).

 

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(d) Allocation of Certain Tax Items. Profits and Losses described in Section 3.1(e)(v) shall be allocated in a manner consistent with the manner that the adjustments to the Capital Accounts are required to be made pursuant to Treasury Regulation Sections 1.704-1(b)(2)(iv)(j), (k) and (m).

(e) Effect of Allocations. Allocations pursuant to Section 4.3(b) are solely for purposes of federal, state and local Taxes and shall not affect, or in any way be taken into account in computing, any Unitholder’s Capital Account or share of Profits and Losses, Distributions or other Company items pursuant to any provision of this Agreement.

4.4 Indemnification and Reimbursement for Payments on Behalf of a Unitholder. Except as otherwise provided in Section 6.1, if the Company is required by law to make any payment to a Governmental Entity that is specifically attributable to a Unitholder or a Unitholder’s status as such (including federal withholding taxes, state personal property taxes, and state unincorporated business taxes), then such Unitholder shall indemnify and contribute to the Company in full for the entire amount paid (including interest, penalties and related expenses). The Manager may offset Distributions to which a Person is otherwise entitled under this Agreement against such Person’s obligation to indemnify the Company under this Section 4.4. A Unitholder’s obligation to indemnify and make contributions to the Company under this Section 4.4 shall survive the termination, dissolution, liquidation and winding up of the Company, and for purposes of this Section 4.4, the Company shall be treated as continuing in existence. The Company may pursue and enforce all rights and remedies it may have against each Unitholder under this Section 4.4, including instituting a lawsuit to collect such indemnification and contribution, with interest calculated at a rate equal to the Base Rate plus three percent (3%) per annum (but not in excess of the highest rate per annum permitted by law), compounded on the last day of each Fiscal Period.

ARTICLE V

MANAGEMENT

5.1 Authority of Manager; Officer Delegation; Sole Authority. Except for situations in which the approval of any Member(s) is specifically required by this Agreement, (i) all management powers over the business and affairs of the Company shall be exclusively vested in the Public Offering Entity as the sole managing member of the Company (the Public Offering Entity, in such capacity, the “Manager”), (ii) the Manager shall conduct, direct and exercise full control over all activities of the Company and (iii) no other Member shall have any right, authority or power to vote, consent or approve any matter, whether under the Delaware Act, this Agreement or otherwise. The Manager shall be the “manager” of the Company for the purposes of the Delaware Act. Except as otherwise expressly provided for herein and subject to the other provisions of this Agreement, the Members hereby consent to the exercise by the Manager of all such powers and rights conferred on the Members by the Delaware Act with respect to the management and control of the Company. Any vacancies in the position of Manager shall be filled in accordance with Section 5.4.

 

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(b) Certain Actions. Without limiting the authority of the Manager to act on behalf of the Company, the day-to-day business and operations of the Company may be overseen and implemented by officers of the Company (each, an “Officer” and collectively, the “Officers”), subject to the limitations imposed by the Manager. An Officer may, but need not, be a Member. Each Officer shall be appointed by the Manager and shall hold office until his or her successor shall be duly designated and shall qualify or until his or her death or until he or she shall resign or shall have been removed in the manner hereinafter provided. Any one Person may hold more than one office. Subject to the other provisions of this Agreement (including in Section 5.7 below), the salaries or other compensation, if any, of the Officers of the Company shall be fixed from time to time by the Manager. The authority and responsibility of the Officers shall be limited to such duties as the Manager may, from time to time, delegate to them. Unless the Manager decides otherwise, if the title is one commonly used for officers of a business corporation formed under the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware, the assignment of such title shall constitute the delegation to such Person of the authorities and duties that are normally associated with that office. All Officers shall be, and shall be deemed to be, officers and employees of the Company. An Officer may also perform one or more roles as an officer of the Manager. Any Officer may be removed at any time, with or without cause, by the Manager.

(c) Subject to the other provisions of this Agreement, the Manager shall have the power and authority to effectuate the sale, lease, transfer, exchange or other disposition of any, all or substantially all of the assets of the Company (including the exercise or grant of any conversion, option, privilege or subscription right or any other right available in connection with any assets at any time held by the Company) or the merger, consolidation, conversion, division, reorganization or other combination of the Company with or into another entity, for the avoidance of doubt, without the prior consent of any Member or any other Person being required. The Manager shall have the power and authority to cash out fractional Units on such terms and at such times as it determines.

5.2 Actions of the Manager. The Manager may act through any Officer or through any other Person or Persons to whom authority and duties have been delegated pursuant to Section 5.7.

5.3 Resignation; No Removal. The Manager may resign at any time by giving written notice to the Members. Unless otherwise specified in the notice, the resignation shall take effect upon receipt thereof by the Members, and the acceptance of the resignation shall not be necessary to make it effective. For the avoidance of doubt, the Members have no right under this Agreement to remove or replace the Manager.

5.4 Vacancies. Vacancies in the position of Manager occurring for any reason shall be filled by the Public Offering Entity (or, if the Public Offering Entity has ceased to exist without any successor or assign, then by the holders of a majority in interest of the voting capital stock of the Public Offering Entity immediately prior to such cessation). For the avoidance of doubt, the Members (other than the Public Offering Entity) have no right under this Agreement to fill any vacancy in the position of Manager.

5.5 Transactions Between the Company and the Manager. The Manager may cause the Company to contract and deal with the Manager, or any Affiliate of the Manager. The Members hereby approve each of the contracts or agreements between or among the Manager, the Company and their respective Affiliates entered into on or prior to the date of this Agreement in accordance with the Prior Agreement or that the Manager of the Company or the Corporate Board has approved in connection with the Recapitalization or the IPO as of the date of this Agreement.

 

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5.6 Reimbursement for Expenses. The Manager shall not be compensated for its services as Manager of the Company except as expressly provided in this Agreement. The Members acknowledge and agree that, upon consummation of the IPO, the Manager’s Class A Common Stock will be publicly traded and, therefore, the Manager will have access to the public capital markets and that such status and the services performed by the Manager will inure to the benefit of the Company and all Members; therefore, the Manager shall be reimbursed by the Company for any reasonable out-of-pocket expenses incurred on behalf of the Company, including without limitation all fees, expenses and costs associated with the IPO and all fees, expenses and costs of being a public company (including without limitation public reporting obligations, proxy statements, stockholder meetings, stock exchange fees, transfer agent fees, legal fees, accounting fees, SEC and FINRA filing fees and offering expenses, and other related fees) and maintaining its corporate existence. In the event that shares of Class A Common Stock are sold to underwriters in the IPO (or in any subsequent public offering) at a price per share that is lower than the price per share for which such shares of Class A Common Stock are sold to the public in the IPO (or in such subsequent public offering, as applicable) after taking into account underwriters’ discounts or commissions and brokers’ fees or commissions (such difference, the “Discount”) (i) the Manager shall be deemed to have contributed to the Company in exchange for newly issued Units the full amount for which such shares of Class A Common Stock were sold to the public and (ii) the Company shall be deemed to have paid the Discount as an expense. To the extent practicable, expenses incurred by the Manager on behalf of or for the benefit of the Company shall be billed directly to and paid by the Company and, if and to the extent any reimbursements to the Manager or any of its Affiliates by the Company pursuant to this Section 5.6 constitute gross income to such Person (as opposed to the repayment of advances made by such Person on behalf of the Company), such amounts shall be treated as “guaranteed payments” within the meaning of Code Section 707(c) and shall not be treated as distributions for purposes of computing the Members’ Capital Accounts. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Company shall not bear any income tax obligations of the Manager or any payments made pursuant to the Tax Receivable Agreement.

5.7 Delegation of Authority. The Manager (a) may, from time to time, delegate to one or more Persons such authority and duties as the Manager may deem advisable, and (b) may assign titles (including, without limitation, chief executive officer, president, chief financial officer, chief operating officer, general counsel, senior vice president, vice president, secretary, assistant secretary, treasurer or assistant treasurer) and delegate certain authority and duties to such Persons which may be amended, restated or otherwise modified from time to time. Any number of titles may be held by the same individual. The salaries or other compensation, if any, of such agents of the Company shall be fixed from time to time by the Manager, subject to the other provisions in this Agreement.

5.8 Limitation of Liability of Manager.(b)

(a) Except as otherwise provided herein or in an agreement entered into by such Person and the Company, neither the Manager nor any of the Manager’s Affiliates or Manager’s officers, employees or other agents shall be liable to the Company, to any Member that is not the Manager or to any other Person bound by this Agreement for any act or omission performed or omitted by the Manager in its capacity as the sole managing member of the Company pursuant to authority granted to the Manager by this Agreement; provided, however, that, except as otherwise provided herein, such limitation of liability shall not apply to the extent the act or omission was

 

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attributable to the Manager’s willful misconduct or knowing violation of Law or for any present or future material breaches of any representations, warranties or covenants by the Manager or its Affiliates contained herein. The Manager may exercise any of the powers granted to it by this Agreement and perform any of the duties imposed upon it hereunder either directly or by or through its agents, and shall not be responsible for any misconduct or negligence on the part of any such agent (so long as such agent was selected in good faith and with reasonable care). The Manager shall be entitled to rely upon the advice of legal counsel, independent public accountants and other experts, including financial advisors, and any act of or failure to act by the Manager in good faith reliance on such advice shall in no event subject the Manager to liability to the Company or any Member that is not the Manager.

(b) To the fullest extent permitted by applicable Law, whenever this Agreement or any other agreement contemplated herein provides that the Manager shall act in a manner which is, or provide terms which are, “fair and reasonable” to the Company or any Member that is not the Manager, the Manager shall determine such appropriate action or provide such terms considering, in each case, the relative interests of each party to such agreement, transaction or situation and the benefits and burdens relating to such interests, any customary or accepted industry practices, and any applicable United States generally accepted accounting practices or principles, notwithstanding any other provision of this Agreement or in any agreement contemplated herein or applicable provisions of Law or equity or otherwise.

(c) To the fullest extent permitted by applicable Law and notwithstanding any other provision of this Agreement or in any agreement contemplated herein or applicable provisions of Law or equity or otherwise, whenever in this Agreement or any other agreement contemplated herein, the Manager is permitted or required to take any action or to make a decision in its “sole discretion” or “discretion,” with “complete discretion” or under a grant of similar authority or latitude, the Manager shall be entitled to consider such interests and factors as it desires, including its own interests, and shall have no duty or obligation to give any consideration to any interest of or factors affecting the Company, other Members or any other Person.

(d) To the fullest extent permitted by applicable Law and notwithstanding any other provision of this Agreement or in any agreement contemplated herein or applicable provisions of law or equity or otherwise, whenever in this Agreement the Manager is permitted or required to take any action or to make a decision in its “good faith” or under another express standard, the Manager shall act under such express standard and shall not be subject to any other or different standards imposed by this Agreement or any other agreement contemplated herein, notwithstanding any provision of this Agreement or duty otherwise, existing at Law or in equity, and, notwithstanding anything contained herein to the contrary, so long as the Manager acts in good faith or in accordance with such other express standard, the resolution, action or terms so made, taken or provided by the Manager shall not constitute a breach of this Agreement or impose liability upon the Manager or any of the Manager’s Affiliates and shall be deemed approved by all Members.

5.9 Investment Company Act. The Manager shall use commercially reasonable efforts to ensure that the Company shall not be subject to registration as an investment company pursuant to the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended.

 

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ARTICLE VI

RIGHTS AND OBLIGATIONS OF UNITHOLDERS AND MEMBERS

6.1 Limitation of Liability. Except as otherwise provided by the Delaware Act, the debts, obligations and liabilities of the Company, whether arising in contract, tort or otherwise, shall be solely the debts, obligations and liabilities of the Company, and no Unitholder, Member or Manager shall be obligated personally for any such debt, obligation or liability of the Company solely by reason of being a Unitholder or acting as a Member or Manager of the Company. A Unitholder’s liability (in its capacity as such) for debts, liabilities and losses of the Company shall be limited to such Unitholder’s share of the Company’s assets; provided, that a Unitholder shall be required to return to the Company any Distribution made to it in clear and manifest accounting or similar error. The immediately preceding sentence shall constitute a compromise to which all Unitholders have consented within the meaning of the Delaware Act. Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, except as required by applicable law, the failure of the Company to observe any formalities or requirements relating to the exercise of its powers or management of its business and affairs under this Agreement or the Delaware Act shall not be grounds for imposing personal liability on the Unitholders, Members or Managers for liabilities of the Company.

6.2 Lack of Authority. No Unitholder or Member, in its capacity as such, has the authority or power to act for or on behalf of the Company in any manner or way, to bind the Company, or do any act that would be (or could be construed as) binding on the Company, in any manner or way, or to make any expenditures on behalf of the Company, unless such specific authority has been expressly granted to and not revoked from such Member by the Manager, and the Unitholders and Members hereby consent to the exercise by the Manager of the powers conferred on it by law and this Agreement.

6.3 No Right of Partition. No Unitholder or Member shall have the right to seek or obtain partition by court decree or operation of law of any the Company property, or the right to own or use particular or individual assets of the Company.

6.4 Indemnification.

(a) Indemnity in Third-Party Proceedings. Subject to Section 4.4, the Company hereby agrees to indemnify and hold harmless any Person (each, an “Indemnified Person”) to the fullest extent permitted under the Delaware Act, as the same now exists or may hereafter be amended, substituted or replaced (but, in the case of any such amendment, substitution or replacement only to the extent that such amendment, substitution or replacement permits the Company to provide broader indemnification rights than the Company is providing immediately prior to such amendment), against all Expenses and Liabilities reasonably incurred or suffered by such Person (or one or more of such Person’s Affiliates) in connection with or as a consequence of any Proceeding (other than any Proceeding brought by or in the right of the Company to procure a judgment in its favor, which shall be governed by the provisions set forth in Section 6.4(b)), or any claim, issue or matter therein, by reason of the fact that such Person is or was a Unitholder,

 

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Manager or Member or is or was serving as a Representative of any Group Company or is or was serving at the request of any Group Company as a Representative of another corporation, partnership, joint venture, limited liability company, trust or other enterprise so long as such Indemnified Person acted in good faith and in a manner he/she reasonably believed to be in, or not opposed to, the best interests of the Company and, in the case of a criminal proceeding, had no reasonable cause to believe that his/her conduct was unlawful. For the avoidance of doubt, a finding, admission or stipulation that an Indemnified Person has acted with gross negligence or recklessness shall not, of itself, create a presumption that such Indemnified Person has failed to meet the standard or conduct required for indemnification in this Section 6.4.

(b) Indemnity in Proceedings by or in the Right of the Company. Subject to Section 4.4, the Company shall indemnify and hold harmless each Indemnified Person, to the fullest extent permitted by the Delaware Act, as the same now exists or may hereafter be amended, substituted or replaced (but, in the case of any such amendment, substitution or replacement only to the extent that such amendment, substitution or replacement permits the Company to provide broader indemnification rights than the Company is providing immediately prior to such amendment), from and against all Liabilities and Expenses suffered or incurred by such Indemnified Person or on such Indemnified Person’s behalf in connection with or as a consequence of any Proceeding brought by or in the right of the Company to procure a judgment in its favor, or any claim, issue or matter therein, if such Indemnified Person acted in good faith and in a manner he/she reasonably believed to be in, or not opposed, to the best interests of the Company. No indemnification for Liabilities and Expenses shall be made under this Section 6.4(b) in respect of any claim, issue or matter as to which such Indemnified Person shall have been finally adjudged by a court to be liable to the Company, unless and only to the extent that the Delaware Court of Chancery or any court in which the Proceeding was brought shall determine upon application that, despite the adjudication of liability, but in view of all the circumstances of the case, such Indemnified Person is fairly and reasonably entitled to indemnification. For the avoidance of doubt, a finding, admission or stipulation that an Indemnified Person has acted with gross negligence or recklessness shall not, of itself, create a presumption that such Indemnified Person has failed to meet the standard or conduct required for indemnification in this Section 6.4(b).

(c) Indemnification for Expenses of a Party Who is Wholly or Partly Successful. Without limiting the rights of any Indemnified Person under any other provision hereof, to the extent that (i) such Indemnified Person is a party to (or a participant in) any Proceeding, (ii) the Company is not permitted by applicable law to indemnify such Indemnified Person with respect to any claim brought in such Proceeding if such claim is asserted successfully against such Indemnified Person, and (iii) such Indemnified Person is not wholly successful in such Proceeding, but is successful, on the merits or otherwise (including, without limitation, settlement thereof), as to one or more but less than all claims, issues or matters in such Proceeding, then the Company shall indemnify such Indemnified Person, to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, against all Liabilities and Expenses actually and reasonably incurred by such Indemnified Person or on such Indemnified Person’s behalf, in connection with or as a consequence of each successfully resolved claim, issue or matter. For purposes of this Section 6.4(c) and without limitation, the termination of any claim, issue or matter in such a Proceeding by settlement, entry of a plea of nolo contendere or by dismissal, with or without prejudice, shall be deemed to be a successful result as to such claim, issue or matter.

(d) Indemnification for Expenses of a Witness. To the extent that an Indemnified Person is, by reason of such Indemnified Person’s status as a Representative of the Company or any of its Affiliates, a witness in any Proceeding to which such Indemnified Person is not a party, such Indemnified Person shall be indemnified to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law against all Liabilities and Expenses suffered or incurred by him/her or on his/her behalf in connection therewith

 

 

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(e) Additional Indemnification. Notwithstanding any limitation in Sections 6.4(a), 6.4(b) or 6.4(c), the Company shall indemnify each Indemnified Person to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law if such Indemnified Person is a party to, or threatened to be made a party to, any Proceeding (including, without limitation, a Proceeding by or in the right of the Company to procure a judgment in its favor), against all Liabilities and Expenses suffered or incurred by such Indemnified Person in connection with such Proceeding: (i) to the fullest extent permitted by the provision of the Delaware Act that authorizes or contemplates additional indemnification by agreement, or the corresponding provision of any amendment to, or replacement of, the Delaware Act (but, in the case of any such amendment or replacement, only to the extent that such amendment or replacement permits the Company to provide broader indemnification rights than the Company is providing immediately prior to such amendment), and (ii) to the fullest extent authorized or permitted by any amendments to, or replacements of, the Delaware Act adopted after the date of this Agreement that increase the extent to which a limited liability may indemnify its officers, directors and managers.

(f) Exclusions. Notwithstanding any provision in this Agreement to the contrary, the Company shall not be obligated under this Agreement to make any indemnity in connection with any Proceeding (or any part of any Proceeding):

(i) for which payment has actually been made to or on behalf of such Indemnified Person under any statute, insurance policy procured by the Company, indemnity provision, vote or otherwise, except with respect to any excess beyond the amount paid;

(ii) for an accounting or disgorgement of profits pursuant to Section 16(b) of the Exchange Act or similar provisions of federal, state or local statutory law or common law, if such Indemnified Person is held liable therefor (including pursuant to any settlement arrangements to which such Indemnified Person has consented);

(iii) initiated by such Indemnified Person, including any Proceeding (or any part of any Proceeding) initiated by such Indemnified Person against the Company or its directors, officers, employees, agents or other indemnitees (not by way of defense), unless (A) the Manager authorized the Proceeding (or the relevant part of the Proceeding), (B) the Company provides the indemnification, in its sole discretion, pursuant to the powers vested in the Company under applicable law, (C) with respect to proceedings brought to establish or enforce a right to indemnification or advancement under this Agreement or under any other agreement or applicable law, or (D) otherwise required by applicable law; or

(iv) if a court of competent jurisdiction determines that such indemnification is prohibited by applicable law in a final judgment from which there is no further right of appeal.

 

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(g) Advancement of Expenses. The Company shall advance, to the fullest extent permitted by law, Expenses incurred by an Indemnified Person in connection with any Proceeding, and such advancement shall be made within ten (10) days after the receipt by the Company of a statement or statements requesting such advances from time to time (which shall include invoices received by such Indemnified Person in connection with such Expenses but, in the case of invoices in connection with legal services, any references to legal work performed or to expenditures made that would cause such Indemnified Person to waive any privilege accorded by applicable law shall not be included with the invoice), whether prior to, or after, final disposition of any Proceeding (including any appeal). Advances shall be unsecured and interest free. Advances shall be made without regard to such Indemnified Person’s ability to repay Expenses and without regard to such Indemnified Person’s ultimate entitlement to indemnification under the other provisions of this Agreement. Advances shall include any and all Expenses incurred pursuing an action to enforce this right of advancement, including, without limitation, Expenses incurred preparing and forwarding statements to the Company to support the advances claimed. Each Indemnified Person shall undertake to repay the advance to the extent that it is ultimately determined that such Indemnified Person is not entitled to be indemnified by the Company. To obtain indemnification, an Indemnified Person shall submit to the Company a written request, including therein documentation and information as is reasonably available to such Indemnified Person and is reasonably necessary to determine whether and to what extent such Indemnified Person is entitled to indemnification, and shall request payment thereof. The Company shall (i) pay Expenses on behalf of such Indemnified Person, (ii) advance to such Indemnified Person funds in an amount sufficient to pay such Expense, or (iii) reimburse such Indemnified Person for such Expenses.

(h) Nonexclusivity of Rights. The right to indemnification conferred in this Section 6.4 shall not be exclusive of any other right that any Person may have or hereafter acquire under any statute, agreement, law, vote of the Manager or otherwise. In addition, the Company hereby acknowledges that certain directors and officers affiliated with the Public Offering Entity may have certain rights to indemnification, advancement of expenses and/or insurance provided by the Public Offering Entity or certain of its Affiliates (collectively, the “Investor Indemnitors”). The Company hereby agrees (i) that it is the indemnitor of first resort (i.e., its obligations to the Indemnified Person are primary and any obligation of the Investor Indemnitors to advance expenses or to provide indemnification for the same expenses or liabilities incurred by the Indemnified Person are secondary), (ii) that it shall be required to advance the full amount of expenses incurred by the Indemnified Person in accordance with this Section 6.4 without regard to any rights the Indemnified Person may have against the Investor Indemnitors, and (iii) that it irrevocably waives, relinquishes and releases the Investor Indemnitors from any and all claims against the Investor Indemnitors for contribution, subrogation or any other recovery of any kind in respect thereof. The Company further agrees that no advancement or payment by the Investor Indemnitors on behalf of the Indemnified Person with respect to any claim for which the Indemnified Person has sought indemnification from the Company shall affect the foregoing and the Investor Indemnitors shall have a right of contribution and/or be subrogated to the extent of such advancement or payment to all of the rights of recovery of the Indemnified Person against the Company.

(i) Insurance. The Company may maintain insurance, at its expense, to protect any Indemnified Person against any expense, liability or loss described in this Section 6.4 whether or not the Company would have the power to indemnify such Indemnified Person against such Expense or Liability under the provisions of this Section 6.4.

 

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(j) Limitation. Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary (including in this Section 6.4), any indemnity by the Company relating to the matters covered in this Section 6.4 shall be provided out of and to the extent of Company assets only, and no Unitholder (unless such Unitholder otherwise agrees in writing or is found in a final decision by a court of competent jurisdiction to have personal liability on account thereof) shall have personal liability on account thereof or shall be required to make additional Capital Contributions to help satisfy such indemnity of the Company (except as expressly provided herein).

(k) Savings Clause. If this Section 6.4 or any portion hereof shall be invalidated on any ground by any court of competent jurisdiction, then the Company shall nevertheless indemnify and hold harmless each Indemnified Person pursuant to this Section 6.4 to the fullest extent permitted by any applicable portion of this Section 6.4 that shall not have been invalidated and to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law.

6.5 Unitholders Right to Act. Except as expressly provided in this Agreement or by non-waivable provisions of the Delaware Act, the Unitholders shall not have any voting or consent rights under this Agreement or the Delaware Act with respect to the Units held by such Person, including with respect to any matters to be decided by the Company or any other governance matters described in this Agreement, and each Unitholder, by its acceptance of Units, expressly waives any consent or voting rights (except to the extent expressly provided in this Agreement) or other rights to participate in the governance of the Company, whether such rights may be provided under the Delaware Act or otherwise. Except as expressly provided in this Agreement or non-waivable provisions of the Delaware Act, on all matters (if any) submitted to the Unitholders for a vote, the Public Offering Entity shall be entitled to one (1) vote per Class A Common Unit held by such holder, and all other holders of Class A Common Units shall be entitled to vote only to the extent described in this Agreement, including as described in Section 14.2. The actions by the Unitholders permitted hereunder may be taken at a meeting called by the Manager or by Unitholders holding a majority of the Units entitled to vote or consent on the matter on at least twenty-four (24) hours’ prior written notice to the other Unitholders entitled to vote or consent thereon, which notice shall state the purpose or purposes for which such meeting is being called. Each Member entitled to vote shall be allowed to participate in any such meeting of the Unitholders by means of telephone. The actions taken by the Unitholders entitled to vote or consent at any meeting (as opposed to by written consent), however called and noticed, shall be as valid as though taken at a meeting duly held after regular call and notice if (but not until), the Unitholders entitled to vote or consent as to whom it was improperly held appears at such meeting without protest, or either before, at or after the meeting, signs a written waiver of notice or a consent to the holding of such meeting or an approval of the minutes thereof. The actions by the Unitholders entitled to vote or consent may be taken by vote of the Unitholders entitled to vote or consent at a meeting or by written consent (without a meeting and without a vote) so long as such consent is signed by the Unitholders having not less than the minimum number of Units that would be necessary to authorize or take such action at a meeting at which all Unitholders entitled to vote thereon were present and voted. Prompt notice of the action so taken without a meeting shall be given to those Unitholders entitled to vote or consent who have not consented in writing. Any action taken pursuant to such written consent of the Unitholders shall have the same force and effect as if taken by the Unitholders at a meeting thereof.

 

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6.6 Investment Opportunities and Conflicts of Interest.

(a) Notwithstanding any other provision of this Agreement (subject to Section 5.8 with respect to the Manager), to the extent that, at Law or in equity, any Member (including without limitation, the Manager but subject to Section 5.8 with respect to the Manager) (or such Member’s Affiliate or any manager, managing member, general partner, director, officer, employee, agent, fiduciary or trustee of such Member or of any Affiliate of such Member (each Person described in this parenthetical, a “Related Person”)) has duties (including fiduciary duties (other than any fiduciary duty owed by such Member or Related Person to the Public Offering Entity)) to the Company, to the Manager, to another Member, to any Person who acquires an interest in a Class A Common Unit or to any other Person bound by this Agreement, all such duties are hereby eliminated, to the fullest extent permitted by Law, and replaced with the duties or standards expressly set forth herein, if any; provided, however, that each Member (including the Manager) shall have the duty to act in accordance with the implied contractual covenant of good faith and fair dealing. The elimination of such duties to the Company, the Manager, each of the Members, each other Person who acquires an interest in a Class A Common Unit and each other Person bound by this Agreement and replacement thereof with the duties or standards expressly set forth herein, if any, are approved by the Company, the Manager, each of the Members, each other Person who acquires an interest in a Company Interest and each other Person bound by this Agreement.

6.7 Interested Transactions. The Manager may cause any Group Company to enter into any contracts or transactions with the Investors, the other Unitholders and their respective Affiliates as the Manager may determine in its sole discretion and no manager shall be deemed to have breached any fiduciary duty, duty of loyalty or other duty to the Company, the Unitholders or any other Person with respect to any action or inaction in connection with or relating to any such transaction.

6.8 Confidentiality. Each Unitholder recognizes and acknowledges that it has and may in the future receive certain Confidential Information. Each Unitholder, on behalf of itself and, to the extent that such Unitholder would be responsible under principles of agency law for the acts of its directors, officers, shareholders, partners, employees, agents and members, agrees that it will not, during or after the term of this Agreement, whether directly or indirectly through an Affiliate or otherwise, disclose Confidential Information to any Person for any reason or purpose whatsoever, except (a) to authorized directors, officers, representatives, agents and employees of any Group Company and as otherwise may be proper in the course of performing such Unitholder’s obligations, or enforcing such Unitholder’s rights, under this Agreement and the agreements expressly contemplated hereby; or (b) as is required to be disclosed by order of a Governmental Entity, or by subpoena, summons or legal process, or by law, rule or regulation; provided, that to the extent permitted by law, the Unitholder required to make such disclosure shall provide to the Manager prompt notice of such disclosure. For purposes of this Section 6.8, Confidential Information shall not include any information that was or has become generally available to the public other than as a result of disclosure by any Group Company to the public. Nothing in this Section 6.8 shall in any way limit or otherwise modify any confidentiality covenants entered into

 

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between any Unitholder and any Group Company. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Section 6.8, the Public Offering Entity may disclose any Confidential Information pursuant to any disclosure obligation under any applicable law or stock exchange rule with no obligation to provide written notice to the Company or any other Member to whom such Confidential Information relates.

ARTICLE VII

BOOKS, RECORDS, ACCOUNTING AND REPORTS

7.1 Records and Accounting. The Company shall keep, or cause to be kept, appropriate books and records with respect to the Company’s business, including all books and records necessary to provide any information, lists and copies of documents required to be provided pursuant to Section 7.2 or pursuant to applicable laws. All matters concerning (a) the determination of the relative amount of allocations and Distributions among the Unitholders pursuant to Article III and Article IV and (b) accounting procedures and determinations, and other determinations not specifically and expressly provided for by the terms of this Agreement, shall be determined by the Manager, whose determination shall be final and conclusive as to all of the Unitholders absent manifest error.

7.2 Tax Reports. The Company shall use commercially reasonable efforts to deliver or cause to be delivered, within one hundred twenty (120) days after the end of each Fiscal Year, to each Person who was a Unitholder at any time during such Fiscal Year all information necessary for the preparation of such Person’s United States federal and state income tax returns. Except as otherwise provided in this Agreement, only holders of Class A Common Units who are not employed by, providing services to or otherwise partnered with any Person that is or is reasonably likely to become competitive with any Group Company shall be entitled to inspect, review, obtain or receive any information about the Group Companies under Section 18-305 of the Delaware Act, under this Agreement or otherwise, other than as set forth in this Section 7.2 and Section 8.2.

7.3 Transmission of Communications. Each Person that owns or controls Units on behalf of, or for the benefit of, another Person or Persons shall be responsible for conveying any report, notice or other communication received from the Company to such other Person or Persons.

ARTICLE VIII

TAX MATTERS

8.1 Preparation of Tax Returns. The Manager shall arrange for the preparation and timely filing of all Tax returns required to be filed by the Company.

8.2 Tax Elections. The Taxable Year shall be the Fiscal Year unless the Manager shall determine otherwise and, in any event, shall be as permitted or required by the Code. The Manager shall determine whether to make or revoke any available election pursuant to the Code, except as otherwise provided herein. Each Unitholder will upon request supply any information necessary to give proper effect to such election.

 

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8.3 Tax Controversies.

(a) The Public Offering Entity shall be the Partnership Representative, and shall be authorized and required to represent the Company (at the Company’s expense) in connection with all examinations of the Company’s affairs by Tax authorities, including resulting administrative and judicial proceedings, and to expend Company funds for professional services reasonably incurred in connection therewith. The Partnership Representative shall appoint a “designated individual” in accordance with the requirements of Treasury Regulation Section 301.6223-1(b)(3)(i), as applicable. Each Unitholder agrees to cooperate with the Company and to do or refrain from doing any or all things reasonably requested by the Company with respect to the conduct of such proceedings.

(b) Without limitation of any Unitholder’s entitlement to Tax Distributions under Section 4.3 hereof, but notwithstanding any other provision to the contrary in this Agreement, (i) with respect to any “imputed underpayment” pertaining to the Company within the meaning of Section 6225 of the Code, the Partnership Representative shall make a timely election under Section 6226(a) of the Code, and (ii) each Unitholder shall be liable for and, promptly upon demand by the Partnership Representative, pay to the Company such Unitholder’s share of any imputed underpayment of tax imposed on Unitholders in their capacities as such and any interest and penalties relating thereto imposed on the Company as a result of any partnership adjustment or other proceeding with substantially similar effect under the Partnership Tax Audit Rules; for the avoidance of doubt, the immediately preceding clause (ii) applies only to U.S. federal income taxes and related interest and penalties imposed under the Partnership Tax Audit Rules and state and local income taxes and related interest and penalties imposed under state and local tax laws or regulations that conform to or operate in substantially the same manner as the Partnership Tax Audit Rules with respect to any imputed underpayment and related interest and penalties.

(b) Promptly following the written request of the Partnership Representative, the Company shall, to the fullest extent permitted by law, reimburse and indemnify the Partnership Representative for all reasonable expenses, including reasonable legal and accounting fees, claims, liabilities, losses and damages incurred by the Partnership Representative in connection with any administrative or judicial proceeding (i) with respect to the Tax liability of the Company and/or (ii) with respect to the Tax liability of the Unitholders in connection with the operations of the Company. The provisions of this Section 8.3 shall survive the termination of the Company or the termination of any Unitholder’s interest in the Company and shall remain binding on the Unitholders for as long a period of time as is necessary to resolve with the Internal Revenue Service (or similar state or local governmental authority) any and all matters regarding the taxation of the Company or the Unitholders.

ARTICLE IX

TRANSFER OF UNITS

9.1 Required Consent. No Unitholder shall Transfer (or offer or agree to Transfer) all or any part of any interest in any Equity Securities except in compliance with this Article IX and any other agreement binding upon such Unitholder that restricts the Transfer of Equity Securities (including any Equity Agreement and any underwriter lock-up agreement applicable to such Unitholder). In addition to complying with any other provisions regarding Transfer of Equity Securities set forth herein or in any applicable Equity Agreement, no Unitholder shall (directly or indirectly through a transfer of such Unitholder’s equity interests) Transfer (or offer or agree to

 

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Transfer) all or any part of any interest in any Equity Securities without first obtaining the prior written consent of the Manager, which consent may be withheld in the Manager’s sole discretion; provided, that such Unitholder may Transfer Equity Securities (without the Manager’s prior written consent, but subject to the other provisions of this Agreement or any applicable Equity Agreement) (i) pursuant to an Approved Sale, (ii) pursuant to any forfeiture or repurchase provisions set forth in any applicable Employment Agreement or Equity Agreement, (iii) pursuant to an Exchange effected pursuant to Section 9.9, or (iv) to such Unitholder’s Permitted Transferees subject to Sections 9.4(c) and (f); provided, however, that if such Unitholder Transfers any interests in any Units to a Permitted Transferee and such Person ceases to be a Permitted Transferee of such Unitholder, then such Person shall, upon ceasing to be a Permitted Transferee, Transfer such interest back to the Unitholder making such initial Transfer. Except as otherwise expressly provided herein, it shall be a condition precedent to any Transfer of any Class A Common Unit that constitutes a portion of a Combined Unit that, concurrently with such Transfer, such transferring Member shall also Transfer to the transferee a corresponding share of Noneconomic Stock. Any Transfer that is not in compliance with the provisions of this Agreement shall be deemed a Transfer by such Member of Units in violation of this Agreement (and a breach of this Agreement by such Member) and shall be null and void ab initio. The certificate of incorporation of the Public Offering Entity (as amended and in effect from time to time) shall govern the redemption, exchange and conversion of Class B Common Stock or Class C Common Stock, as applicable, to Class A Common Stock or Class D Common Stock, as applicable, and a conversion pursuant to and in accordance with such certificate of incorporation of the Public Offering Entity shall not be considered a “Transfer” for purposes of this Agreement.

9.2 Approved Sale.

(a) General Approved Sale. Each Member and each Unitholder hereby agree that, if the Manager approves a Change of Control (an “Approved Sale”), then each Member and each direct and indirect Unitholder shall be deemed to have voted for and provided any applicable consent to (and, if requested, to confirm such consent, whether at a meeting of Unitholders or in writing to), and in any event agrees to raise no objections against, and not otherwise impede or delay, such Approved Sale.

(b) Approved Sale Procedures. In furtherance of the foregoing, if the Approved Sale is structured as a (i) merger or consolidation, then each Member and Unitholder shall waive any dissenters rights, appraisal rights or similar rights in connection with such merger or consolidation, or (ii) sale of Units, then each Member and Unitholder shall agree to sell, and shall sell, all of his, her or its Units and rights to acquire Units (to the extent that such Units or rights to acquire Units are not automatically deemed cancelled in the event of an Approved Sale pursuant to the terms of this Agreement or any applicable Equity Agreement) on the terms and conditions approved by the Manager. Each Member and Unitholder shall take all necessary or desirable actions in connection with the consummation of the Approved Sale as requested by the Manager which may include a mandatory Exchange under Section 9.9(b). The obligations of any Member or Unitholder with respect to an Approved Sale are, except as provided in Section 9.2(c) below, subject to the condition that each Unitholder shall receive (or have the option to receive) the same form and mix of consideration and the same per Unit amount of consideration (taking into account the priorities, thresholds and limitations of each class of Units set forth herein) upon the consummation of such Approved Sale.

 

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(c) Application of Proceeds. The proceeds of any such Change of Control received by the Unitholders, in their capacity as such (other than in respect of bona fide payments for services to be rendered on an arms-length basis (e.g., not involving consulting arrangements or non-compete payments)), shall be allocated among the Unitholders based upon the Units included in such Change of Control as if the proceeds of such Change of Control were paid pursuant to Section 4.1(b) in connection with a Distribution and the Units of the Unitholders included in such Change of Control were the only outstanding Units of the Company at the time of such Distribution.

(d) Purchaser Representative. If any Group Company enters into any negotiation or transaction for which Rule 506 (or any similar rule then in effect) promulgated by the Securities Exchange Commission may be available with respect to such negotiation or transaction (including a merger, consolidation or other reorganization), then each of the other Unitholders that is not an “accredited investor” as such term is defined under the Securities Act shall, at the request of the Company, appoint a “purchaser representative” (as such term is defined in Rule 501 promulgated under the Securities Act) designated by the Company. If any such Unitholder so appoints a purchaser representative, then the Company shall pay the fees of such purchaser representative. However, if any such Unitholder declines to appoint the purchaser representative designated by the Company, then such Unitholder shall appoint another purchaser representative (reasonably acceptable to the Company), and such Unitholder shall be responsible for the fees of the purchaser representative so appointed.

(e) No Grant of Dissenters Rights or Appraisal Rights. In no manner shall this Section 9.2 be construed to grant to any Member or Unitholder any dissenters rights or appraisal rights or give any Member or Unitholder any right to vote in any transaction structured as a merger or consolidation or otherwise (it being understood that the Unitholders hereby expressly waive rights under Section 18-210 of the Delaware Act (entitled “Contractual Appraisal Rights”) and grant to the Manager the sole right to approve or consent to a merger or consolidation of the Company without approval or consent of the Members or the Unitholders).

9.3 Effect of Assignment.

(a) Termination of Rights. Any Member who assigns any Units or other interest in the Company shall cease to be a Member with respect to such Units or other interest and shall no longer have any rights or privileges of a Member with respect to such Units or other interest, except as provided in Section 9.1; provided, that, for the avoidance of doubt, the Company may, in the discretion of the Manager, apportion any Tax Distribution made with respect to any assigned Unit or other interest in the Company between the assignor and assignee so as to reflect the manner in which the corresponding taxable income allocable with respect to such assigned Unit or other interest in the Company has been allocated as between the assignor Member and assignee Member.

(b) Deemed Agreement. Any Person who acquires in any manner whatsoever any Units or other interest in the Company, irrespective of whether such Person has accepted and adopted in writing the terms and provisions of this Agreement, shall be deemed by the acceptance of the benefits of the acquisition thereof to have agreed to be subject to and bound by all of the terms and conditions of this Agreement that any predecessor in such Units or other interest in the Company of such Person was subject to or by which such predecessor was bound.

 

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9.4 Additional Restrictions on Transfer.

(a) Execution of Counterpart. Except in connection with an Approved Sale or Exchanges made in accordance with Section 9.9, each Transferee of Units or other interests in the Company shall, as a condition prior to such Transfer, execute and deliver to the Company a counterpart or acceptable joinder to this Agreement pursuant to which such Transferee shall agree to be bound by the provisions of this Agreement.

(b) Notice. In connection with the Transfer of any Units, the holder of such Units will deliver written notice to the Company describing in reasonable detail the Transfer or proposed Transfer.

(c) Legal Opinion. Except in connection with Transfers to Permitted Transferees or Exchanges made in accordance with Section 9.9, no Transfer of Units or any other interest in the Company may be made unless in the opinion of counsel, satisfactory in form and substance to the Manager (which opinion may be waived by the Manager), such Transfer would not violate any federal securities laws or any state or provincial securities or “blue sky” laws (including any investor suitability standards) applicable to the Company or the interest to be Transferred, or cause the Company to be required to register as an “Investment Company” under the U.S. Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended. Such opinion of counsel shall be delivered in writing to the Company prior to the date of the Transfer.

(d) No Avoidance of Provisions. No Unitholder shall directly or indirectly (i) permit the Transfer of all or any portion of the direct or indirect equity or beneficial interest in such Unitholder or (ii) otherwise seek to avoid the provisions of this Agreement by issuing, or permitting the issuance of, any direct or indirect equity or beneficial interest in such Unitholder, in any such case in a manner that would fail to comply with this Article IX if such Unitholder had Transferred Units directly, unless such Unitholder first complies with the terms of this Agreement.

(e) Code Section 7704 Private Placement Safe Harbor. In order for the Company to be treated as a “publicly traded partnership” and not taxed as a corporation pursuant to Section 7704 by satisfying the private placement rule in Treasury Section 1.7704-1(h), notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, no Transfer of any Unit or economic interest shall be permitted or recognized by the Company or the Manager (within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.7704-1(d)) if and to the extent that such Transfer would reasonably be expected to cause a non-de minimis risk that the Company would have more than one hundred (100) partners (within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.7704-1(h), including the look-through rule in Treasury Regulation Section 1.7704-1(h)(3)). The Company and the Manager shall be entitled to rely upon the advice of a nationally recognized law or accounting firm with expertise in Tax matters in making any determination under this Section 9.4(e).

 

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(f) Additional Transfer Restrictions. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein, in no event shall any Unitholder Transfer any Units to the extent such transfer (i) could reasonably be expected to create a non-de minimis risk that the Company could be treated as a “publicly traded partnership” or could be taxed as a corporation pursuant to Section 7704 of the Code or any successor provision thereto under the Code (as determined in the sole discretion of the Manager or (ii) if such Unitholder is a person that is not a “United States person” within the meaning of Section 7701(a)(30) of the Code, unless such Unitholder and transferee have delivered to the Company, in respect of the relevant Transfer, written evidence that all required withholding under Section 1446(f) of the Code will have been done and duly remitted to the applicable taxing authority or duly executed certifications (prepared in accordance with the applicable Treasury Regulations or other authorities) of an exemption from such withholding. For the avoidance of doubt, in the event that a Unitholder (or such Unitholder’s estate) attempts to Transfer any Units in connection with the death, disability, incapacity, dissolution, bankruptcy, insolvency or termination of such Unitholder, such Transfer shall, to the extent it is in violation of this Agreement (unless otherwise waived by the Manager) be void ab initio such that the Unitholder (or such Unitholder’s estate) remains the owner of the applicable Units.

9.5 Legend. In the event that Certificated Units are issued, such Certificated Units will bear the following legend:

“THE UNITS REPRESENTED BY THIS CERTIFICATE HAVE NOT BEEN REGISTERED UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933, AS AMENDED (THE “ACT”), OR APPLICABLE STATE SECURITIES LAWS (“STATE ACTS”) AND MAY NOT BE SOLD, ASSIGNED, PLEDGED, TRANSFERRED OR OTHERWISE DISPOSED OF IN THE ABSENCE OF AN EFFECTIVE REGISTRATION STATEMENT UNDER THE ACT OR STATE ACTS OR AN EXEMPTION FROM REGISTRATION THEREUNDER.

THE TRANSFER OF THE UNITS REPRESENTED BY THIS CERTIFICATE IS SUBJECT TO THE CONDITIONS SPECIFIED IN THE THIRD AMENDED AND RESTATED LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY AGREEMENT, DATED AS OF ______, 2021, AS AMENDED, RESTATED AND MODIFIED FROM TIME TO TIME, GOVERNING THE ISSUER (THE “COMPANY”), AND BY AND AMONG CERTAIN INVESTORS (THE “LLC AGREEMENT”). THE UNITS REPRESENTED BY THIS CERTIFICATE MAY ALSO BE SUBJECT TO ADDITIONAL TRANSFER RESTRICTIONS, CERTAIN VESTING PROVISIONS, REPURCHASE OPTIONS, OFFSET RIGHTS AND FORFEITURE PROVISIONS SET FORTH IN THE LLC AGREEMENT AND/OR A SEPARATE AGREEMENT WITH THE INITIAL HOLDER. A COPY OF SUCH CONDITIONS, REPURCHASE OPTIONS AND FORFEITURE PROVISIONS SHALL BE FURNISHED BY THE COMPANY TO THE HOLDER HEREOF UPON WRITTEN REQUEST AND WITHOUT CHARGE.”

 

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If a Member holding Certificated Units delivers to the Company an opinion of counsel, satisfactory in form and substance to the Manager (which opinion may be waived by the Manager), that no subsequent Transfer of such Units will require registration under the Securities Act, then the Company will promptly upon such contemplated Transfer deliver new Certificated Units that do not bear the portion of the restrictive legend relating to the Securities Act set forth in this Section 9.5.

9.6 Transfer Fees and Expenses. Except as provided in Section 9.2, the Transferor and Transferee of any Units or other interest in the Company shall be jointly and severally obligated to reimburse the Company for all reasonable expenses (including attorneys’ fees and expenses) of any Transfer or proposed Transfer, whether or not consummated.

9.7 Void Transfers. Any Transfer by any Member or Unitholder or Permitted Transferee of any Units or other interest in the Company in contravention of this Agreement (including the failure of the Transferee to execute a counterpart or acceptable joinder to this Agreement) or any applicable Equity Agreement, or which would cause the Company to not be treated as a partnership for U.S. federal income tax purposes, shall be void ab initio and shall not bind or be recognized by the Company or any other party. No purported Assignee shall have any right to any gross items of income, gain, deduction or loss or Distributions of the Company.

9.8 Vesting, Forfeiture and Repurchase of Units. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary set forth in this Agreement, Units may be subject to vesting, forfeiture or repurchase as set forth in any applicable Equity Agreement. Upon any repurchase or redemption of any Unit, in lieu of the cancellation of any repurchased or redeemed Units, the Manager may, in its sole discretion, elect that such repurchased or redeemed Units, as the case may be, remain issued and be held in the name, and on behalf of, the Company.

9.9 Exchange of Combined Units for Class A Common Stock.

(a) Elective Exchanges.

(i) Each Class A Unitholder shall be entitled, at any time and from time to time, upon the terms and subject to the conditions hereof, to surrender Combined Units (with the Class A Common Units surrendered to the Company, and the corresponding Noneconomic Stock surrendered to the Public Offering Entity) in exchange for the delivery by the Company to the exchanging Class A Unitholder of, at the option of the Public Offering Entity (as determined solely by a majority of its directors who are disinterested), (A) a number of shares of Class A Common Stock (or Class D Common Stock, for Class A Unitholders for which the Noneconomic Stock comprising a portion of the Combined Units is Class C Common Stock and that are eligible to own Class C Common Stock pursuant to the certificate of incorporation (as then in effect) of the Public Offering Entity) that is equal to the product of the number of Combined Units surrendered multiplied by the Exchange Rate (a “Share Settlement”), which such shares of Class A Common Stock or Class D Common Stock, as applicable, may be contributed by the Public Offering Entity to the Company in exchange for Class A Common Units, or (B) an amount of cash equal to the Cash Redemption Price of such shares net of any underwriters’ discounts, commissions and brokers’ fees that would be payable in connection with the registration

 

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and sale of such shares in a registered offering, as reasonably determined by the Manager (a “Cash Settlement,” and any such exchange of Combined Units for Class A Common Stock or Class D Common Stock, as applicable, or cash, an “Exchange”); provided, for the avoidance of doubt, that the Public Offering Entity may make a Cash Settlement only to the extent that the Public Offering Entity has cash available in an amount equal to at least the Cash Redemption Price which was received pursuant to a contemporaneous public offering or private sale. Any such Exchange shall be for a minimum of the lowest of (i) 5,000 Combined Units, (ii) such other number of Combined Units as may be determined by the Manager with respect to any particular Exchange, and (iii) all of the Combined Units held by such Class A Unitholder. Unless otherwise required by applicable law, the parties hereto acknowledge and agree that any Exchange shall be treated as a direct exchange of the Combined Units between the Public Offering Entity and the Class A Unitholder participating in the Exchange for U.S. federal and applicable state and local income tax purposes.

(ii) A Class A Unitholder shall exercise its right to Exchange Combined Units as set forth in Section 9.9(a)(i) by delivering to (I) the Public Offering Entity, (A) a written election of exchange in respect of the Combined Units to be Exchanged (an “Exchange Notice”), duly executed by such Class A Unitholder, with a contemporaneous copy delivered to the Company, in each case during normal business hours at the principal executive offices of the Public Offering Entity or such address as designated by the Public Offering Entity, (B) any certificate(s) representing the Noneconomic Stock included in such Combined Units, (C) if the Public Offering Entity requires the delivery of the certification contemplated by Section 9.12(b), such certification, or written notice from such Class A Unitholder that it is unable to provide such certification, and (D) in the case of an exchange of Class C Common Stock, a designation of whether the holder elects to receive shares of Class A Common Stock or Class D Common Stock and (II) the Company, the Class A Common Units included in such Combined Units (including, in each case, any certificates representing the underlying Class A Common Units issued to such Class A Unitholder according to the books and records of the Company and the Public Offering Entity, respectively); provided, that if any such certificate has been lost, then the exchanging Class A Unitholder may deliver, in lieu of such certificate, an affidavit of lost certificate. Upon a Class A Unitholder exercising its right to Exchange, the Company and the Public Offering Entity shall take such actions as may be required to ensure that such Class A Unitholder receives the shares of Class A Common Stock or Class D Common Stock, as applicable, or cash that such exchanging Class A Unitholder is entitled to receive in connection with such Exchange pursuant to this Section 9.9(a). Each Class A Unitholder may exercise its right to Exchange Combined Units only one time per calendar quarter. If an exchanging Class A Unitholder receives the shares of Class A Common Stock or Class D Common Stock, as applicable, or cash that it is entitled to receive in connection with an Exchange pursuant to this Section 9.9(a) from the Company pursuant to this Section 9.9(a)(ii), then the Class A Unitholder shall have no further right to receive shares of Class A Common Stock or Class D Common Stock, as applicable, or cash in connection with that Exchange, and the Company shall be deemed to have satisfied its obligations under the second sentence of this Section 9.9(a)(ii). An Exchange pursuant to this Section 9.9(a) shall be deemed to have been effected on the Business Day immediately following the earliest Business Day as of which the Public Offering

 

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Entity and the Company have received the items specified in clauses (I) through (II) of the first sentence of this Section 9.9(a)(ii); provided that no Exchange shall be effected prior to the end of a month (or if such day is not a Business Day, the Business Day immediately prior to the end of a month) (such Business Day, the “Exchange Date”). Subject to the rights of Class A Unitholders to revoke an Exchange Notice in accordance with Section 9.9(a)(iii), on the Exchange Date, all rights of the exchanging Class A Unitholder as a holder of the Combined Units that are subject to the Exchange shall cease, and, in the case of a Share Settlement, such Class A Unitholder shall be treated for all purposes as having become the record holder of the shares of Class A Common Stock or Class D Common Stock, as applicable, to be received by the exchanging Class A Unitholder in respect of such Exchange.

(iii) If, following its receipt of an Exchange Notice, the Public Offering Entity is unable to deliver to the Class A Unitholder requesting such Exchange shares of Class A Common Stock that are covered under an effective registration statement under the Securities Act or that are otherwise freely tradeable or sellable by such Class A Unitholder, then the Public Offering Entity shall notify the requesting Class A Unitholder in writing of that fact, and such Class A Unitholder may, by written notice to the Company and the Public Offering Entity, revoke its Exchange Notice requesting such Exchange, whereupon the Exchange shall be terminated, the Combined Units so requested to be included in such Exchange shall be reinstated in the name of such holder, and any shares of Class A Common Stock or Class D Common Stock, as applicable, issued to such holder as a result of such Exchange shall be cancelled.

(iv) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Section 9.9, the Public Offering Entity (as determined solely by a majority of its directors who are disinterested) may, in its sole and absolute discretion, elect to effect on the Exchange Date the exchange of Combined Units for the Share Settlement or the Cash Settlement, as the case may be, through a direct exchange of such Combined Units and the Share Settlement or the Cash Settlement, as applicable, between the applicable Class A Unitholder and the Public Offering Entity (a “Direct Exchange”). Upon such Direct Exchange pursuant to this Section 9.9(a)(iv), the Public Offering Entity shall acquire the Combined Units and shall be treated for all purposes of this Agreement as the owner of such Combined Units.

(b) Mandatory Exchanges.

(i) The Public Offering Entity shall have the right to require each Class A Unitholder to Exchange all of such Class A Unitholder’s Combined Units in accordance with the provisions of Section 9.9(a), mutatis mutandis, upon the occurrence of a Change of Control

(ii) The Public Offering Entity shall exercise its right to require an Exchange of Combined Units as set forth in Section 9.9(c)(i) by delivering to the Class A Unitholder written notice of such mandatory Exchange (a “Mandatory Exchange Notice”) and the date the Exchange shall be deemed to occur (the “Mandatory Exchange Date”), which date may not be earlier than the date of such written notice; provided, that such date may be described as immediately prior to the occurrence of the Change of Control, and the

 

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Public Offering Entity shall use commercially reasonable efforts to provide such notice to all Class A Unitholders at least ten (10) calendar days before the proposed date upon which the contemplated Change of Control is to be effected. From and after the Mandatory Exchange Date, (x) the Combined Units shall be deemed to have been transferred to the Company or Public Offering Entity, as applicable, on the Mandatory Exchange Date, (y) in the case of a Share Settlement, the Class A Unitholder shall be treated for all purposes as having become the record holder of the shares of Class A Common Stock or Class D Common Stock, as applicable, to be received by the exchanging Class A Unitholder in respect of such Exchange on the Mandatory Exchange Date, and (z) the Class A Unitholder shall cease to have any rights with respect to the Combined Units other than the right to receive shares of Class A Common Stock or Class D Common Stock, as applicable, or cash pursuant to Section 9.9(b)(i) upon compliance with its obligations under Section 9.9(b)(iii).

(iii) On or prior to the Mandatory Exchange Date (or if less than ten (10) calendar days’ notice of the Mandatory Exchange Date is given, within five (5) Business Days of such notice), the Class A Unitholder shall deliver during normal business hours at the principal executive offices of the Public Offering Entity or such address as designated by the Public Offering Entity: (A) an acknowledgement of the Mandatory Exchange Notice (a “Mandatory Exchange Acknowledgement”), duly executed by such Class A Unitholder, (B) any certificate(s) representing all Combined Units held by the Class A Unitholder to be Exchanged on the Mandatory Exchange Date (including any certificates representing the underlying Class A Common Units and any stock certificates representing the underlying shares of Class B Common Stock or Class C Common Stock, as applicable, in each case issued to such Class A Unitholder according to the books and records of the Company and the Public Offering Entity, as applicable); provided, that if any such certificate has been lost, then the exchanging Class A Unitholder may deliver, in lieu of such certificate, an affidavit of lost certificate, and (C) if the Public Offering Entity or the Company requires the delivery of the certification contemplated by Section 9.12(b), such certification or written notice from such Class A Unitholder that it is unable to provide such certification.

(c) Issuance of Class A Common Stock or Class D Common Stock. As promptly as practicable following satisfaction of such Class A Unitholder’s obligations under Section 9.9(a)(ii) or Section 9.9(b)(iii), as applicable, and in any event no later than five (5) Business Days after such obligations are satisfied, in the event of a Share Settlement, the Public Offering Entity or the Company shall deliver or cause to be delivered to such Class A Unitholder, at such Unitholder’s address of record (or at such other address as such Unitholder may designate to the Public Offering Entity), the number of shares of Class A Common Stock or Class D Common Stock, as applicable, deliverable upon such Exchange, registered in the name of the relevant exchanging Class A Unitholder. To the extent that the Class A Common Stock or Class D Common Stock, as applicable, is settled through the facilities of The Depository Trust Company or a transfer agent or similar intermediary, the Public Offering Entity will upon the written instruction of an exchanging Class A Unitholder, deliver the shares of Class A Common Stock or Class D Common Stock, as applicable, deliverable to such exchanging Class A Unitholder, through the facilities of The Depository Trust Company or such agent or intermediary, to the account of the participant of The Depository Trust Company or such agent or intermediary designated by such exchanging Class A Unitholder in the Exchange Notice or the Mandatory

 

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Exchange Acknowledgement, as applicable. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Agreement, no fractional shares of Class A Common Stock or Class D Common Stock, as applicable, shall be issued as a result of any Exchange. In lieu of any fractional share of Class A Common Stock or Class D Common Stock, as applicable, to which a Class A Unitholder would otherwise be entitled in any Exchange, the Company or the Public Offering Entity shall pay to such Class A Unitholder cash equal to such fractional share multiplied by the closing price of a share of Class A Common Stock or Class D Common Stock, as applicable, on the most recent trading day preceding the Exchange Date or Mandatory Exchange Date, as applicable, on which the shares of Class A Common Stock or Class D Common Stock, as applicable, otherwise deliverable in such Exchange are deemed to be delivered.

(d) Cancellation of Class B Common Stock or Class C Common Stock; Class A Common Units. Any shares of Class B Common Stock or Class C Common Stock, as applicable, surrendered in an Exchange shall automatically be deemed cancelled without any action on the part of any Person, including the Public Offering Entity, upon the relevant Exchange Date or Mandatory Exchange Date, as applicable. Any such cancelled shares of Class B Common Stock or Class C Common Stock, as applicable, shall no longer be outstanding, and all rights with respect to such shares shall automatically cease and terminate. Any Class A Common Units surrendered in an Exchange shall automatically be deemed held by the Public Offering Entity thereafter without any action on the part of any Person, including the Company.

(e) Expenses. The Company shall bear its own expenses and the expenses of the Public Offering Entity and each exchanging Class A Unitholder in connection with the consummation of any Exchange, whether or not any such Exchange is ultimately consummated, except that the Public Offering Entity shall bear any transfer taxes, stamp taxes or duties, or other similar taxes in connection with, or arising by reason of, any Exchange.

(f) Other Prohibitions on Exchange. For the avoidance of doubt, and notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein, a Class A Unitholder shall not be entitled to Exchange Combined Units to the extent that the Public Offering Entity or the Company reasonably determines in good faith that such Exchange (i) would be prohibited by law or regulation or (ii) would not be permitted under (w) this Agreement, (x) any lock-up agreement executed in connection with the IPO or any other contractual lock-up agreement relating to the shares of the Public Offering Entity (or any corresponding Units) that may be applicable to such Class A Unitholder, (y) any other agreement with the Public Offering Entity, its subsidiaries, the Company or the Subsidiaries to which such Class A Unitholder is then subject, or (z) any written policies of the Public Offering Entity, its subsidiaries, the Company or the Subsidiaries related to unlawful or inappropriate trading applicable to its directors, officers or other personnel to which such Class A Unitholder is then subject. For the avoidance of doubt, no Exchange shall be deemed to be prohibited by any law or regulation pertaining to the registration of securities if such securities have been so registered or if any exemption from such registration requirements is reasonably available, and the parties hereto believe that there is currently no law or regulation, and acknowledge that there is no agreement of the type referred to in clause (ii) of the preceding sentence, that would, in either case, restrict the ability of a Class A Unitholder to Exchange Combined Units.

 

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9.10 Adjustment of Exchange Rate.

(a) The Exchange Rate shall be adjusted accordingly if there is: (a) any subdivision (by any unit or stock split, unit or stock distribution or dividend, reclassification, reorganization, recapitalization or otherwise) or combination (by reverse unit or stock split, reclassification, reorganization, recapitalization or otherwise) of Class A Common Units, Class B Common Stock or Class C Common Stock that is not accompanied by an identical subdivision or combination of the Class A Common Stock or Class D Common Stock, as applicable; or (b) any subdivision (by any stock split, stock dividend or distribution, reclassification, reorganization, recapitalization or otherwise) or combination (by reverse stock split, reclassification, reorganization, recapitalization or otherwise) of the Class A Common Stock or Class D Common Stock, as applicable, that is not accompanied by an identical subdivision or combination of Class A Common Units or Class B Common Stock or Class C Common Stock. For example, if there is a 2-for-1 stock split of Class A Common Stock or Class D Common Stock and no corresponding split with respect to the Class A Common Units or Class B Common Stock or Class C Common Stock, as applicable, then the Exchange Rate would be adjusted to be 2. To the extent not reflected in an adjustment to the Exchange Rate, if there is any reclassification, reorganization, recapitalization or other similar transaction in which the Class A Common Stock or Class D Common Stock, as applicable, are converted or changed into another security, securities or other property, then upon any subsequent Exchange, an exchanging Class A Unitholder shall be entitled to receive the amount of such security, securities or other property that such exchanging Class A Unitholder would have received if such Exchange had occurred immediately prior to the effective date of such reclassification, reorganization, recapitalization or other similar transaction, taking into account any adjustment as a result of any subdivision (by any split, distribution or dividend, reclassification, reorganization, recapitalization or otherwise) or combination (by reverse split, reclassification, recapitalization or otherwise) of such security, securities or other property that occurs after the effective time of such reclassification, reorganization, recapitalization or other similar transaction. For the avoidance of doubt, if there is any reclassification, reorganization, recapitalization or other similar transaction in which the Class A Common Stock or Class D Common Stock, as applicable, is converted or changed into another security, securities or other property, this Section 9.10 shall continue to be applicable, mutatis mutandis, with respect to such other security or other property.

(b) Each time that the Public Offering Entity (i) purchases Combined Units other than in connection with (A) a corresponding issuance by the Public Offering Entity of the same number of shares of Class A Common Stock or Class D Common Stock (whether as a result of an Exchange or otherwise) or (B) a concurrent recapitalization of the Company that causes the number of Class A Common Units held by the Public Offering Entity to equal the number of shares of Class A Common Stock and Class D Common Stock outstanding immediately following such purchase of Combined Units, or (ii) repurchases shares of Class A Common Stock or Class D Common Stock without a corresponding redemption by the Company of Class A Common Units held by the Public Offering Entity, then the Exchange Rate shall be adjusted immediately following such transaction described in the immediately foregoing clauses (i) or (ii), as applicable, without any further action by the Public Offering Entity, the Company or any Class A Unitholder, as follows: the Exchange Rate shall first be set at a ratio, the numerator of which shall be the number of shares of Class A Common Stock and Class D Common Stock of the Public Offering Entity then issued and outstanding, and the denominator of which shall be the number of Class A Common Units then owned by the Public Offering Entity, in each case after giving effect to the transaction that gave rise to such Exchange Rate adjustment and prior to giving effect to any event

 

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that has occurred which would give rise to an adjustment to the Exchange Rate pursuant to Section 9.10(a), and then that ratio shall be adjusted as set forth in Section 9.10(a) for each event (if any) giving rise to such Section 9.10(a) adjustment assuming that such event had occurred after the transaction that gave rise to the Exchange Rate adjustment being made pursuant to this Section 9.10(b). If at any time the Public Offering Entity issues a share of Class A Common Stock or Class D Common Stock for no consideration or consideration other than cash, then the Company shall issue to the Public Offering Entity one Class A Common Unit.

(c) If the Public Offering Entity pays a dividend or otherwise makes a distribution in respect of shares of Class A Common Stock or Class D Common Stock, in each case of property other than cash, and such property was not acquired with cash received by the Public Offering Entity from the Company, was not distributed to the Public Offering Entity from the Company and is not in connection with an event that results in an Exchange Rate adjustment pursuant to Section 9.10(a), then, upon any Exchange that occurs subsequent to such dividend or distribution of property, the Public Offering Entity shall distribute to the Class A Unitholder conducting such Exchange the property that such Class A Unitholder would have received in such prior dividend or distribution in respect of the shares of Class A Common Stock or Class D Common Stock received by such Class A Unitholder in such Exchange if such Exchange had occurred immediately prior to the record date for such prior dividend or distribution.

9.11 Class A Common Stock or Class D Common Stock to be Delivered upon Exchange.

(a) The Public Offering Entity and the Company covenant and agree to deliver shares of Class A Common Stock deliverable upon an Exchange pursuant to an effective registration statement under the Securities Act with respect to such Exchange to the extent that a registration statement is effective and available for such Exchange. In the event that an Exchange in accordance with this Agreement is to be effected at a time when any such registration statement has not become effective or otherwise is unavailable for such Exchange, the Public Offering Entity shall use its reasonable best efforts to promptly facilitate such Exchange pursuant to any reasonably available exemption from such registration requirements; provided, that if no such registration is available, then the Class A Unitholder requesting such Exchange may revoke its Exchange Notice as described in Section 9.9(a)(iii). Nothing herein shall be construed as a requirement for the Public Offering Entity or the Company to settle the Exchange for cash. The Public Offering Entity shall not be required to comply with this Section 9.11(a) in an Exchange in connection with a Change of Control nor shall the Public Offering Entity be required to register or list the Class D Common Stock.

(b) The Public Offering Entity shall use its reasonable best efforts to list the Class A Common Stock required to be delivered upon Exchange prior to such delivery upon each national securities exchange or inter-dealer quotation system upon which the outstanding shares of Class A Common Stock may be listed or traded at the time of such delivery; provided, that if the shares Class A Common Stock issued or issuable upon an Exchange are not freely tradeable or otherwise sellable by the Class A Unitholder requesting such Exchange, then such Class A Unitholder may revoke its Exchange Notice as described in Section 9.9(a)(iii).

(c) The Public Offering Entity shall at all times reserve and keep available out of its authorized but unissued Class A Common Stock, solely for the purpose of issuance upon an Exchange, the maximum number of shares of Class A Common Stock as shall be deliverable upon Exchange of all then-outstanding Combined Units (assuming all the Combined Units are exchanged for shares of Class A Common Stock).

 

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(d) Prior to the date of this Agreement, the Public Offering Entity has taken all such steps as may be required to cause to qualify for exemption under Rule 16b-3(d) or (e), as applicable, under the Exchange Act, and be exempt for purposes of Section 16(b) under the Exchange Act, any acquisitions from, or dispositions to, the Public Offering Entity of equity securities of the Public Offering Entity (including derivative securities with respect thereto) and any securities which may be deemed to be equity securities or derivative securities of the Public Offering Entity for such purposes that result from the transactions contemplated by this Agreement, by each director or officer of the Public Offering Entity who may reasonably be expected to be subject to the reporting requirements of Section 16(a) of the Exchange Act with respect to the Public Offering Entity upon the registration of any class of equity security of the Public Offering Entity pursuant to Section 12 of the Exchange Act (with the authorizing resolutions specifying the name of each such officer or director whose acquisition or disposition of securities is to be exempted and the number of securities that may be acquired and disposed of by each such Person pursuant to this Agreement).

(e) If any Takeover Law or other similar law or regulation becomes or is deemed to become applicable to this Agreement or any of the transactions contemplated hereby, then the Public Offering Entity shall use its reasonable best efforts to render such law or regulation inapplicable to all of the foregoing.

(f) The Public Offering Entity covenants that all shares of Class A Common Stock or Class D Common Stock, as applicable, delivered upon an Exchange will, upon issuance, be validly issued, fully paid and non-assessable and not subject to any preemptive right of stockholders of the Public Offering Entity or to any right of first refusal or other right in favor of any Person.

(g) For purposes of determining any ordinary income recognized under Code Section 751 with respect to any Exchange pursuant to Section 9.9 (or pursuant to Code Section 741 in the event of a sale or other taxable disposition of any Combined Units), to the extent allowed under laws applicable to the Company, the Manager and the Unitholders agree to use good faith efforts to allocate the aggregate Fair Market Value of the Company’s assets among the Company’s assets consistently with past practice.

9.12 Withholding; Certification of Non-Foreign Status.

(a) If the Public Offering Entity or the Company shall be required to withhold any amounts by reason of any federal, state, local or foreign Tax rules or regulations in respect of any Exchange, then the Public Offering Entity or the Company, as the case may be, shall be entitled to take such action as it deems appropriate in order to ensure compliance with such withholding requirements, including at its option withholding shares of Class A Common Stock or Class D Common Stock, as applicable, with a Fair Market Value equal to the minimum amount of any Taxes which the Public Offering Entity or the Company, as the case may be, may be required to withhold with respect to such Exchange. To the extent that amounts are (or property is) so withheld and paid over to the appropriate taxing authority, such withheld amounts (or property) shall be treated for all purposes of this Agreement as having been paid (or delivered) to the applicable Class A Unitholder.

 

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(b) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein, each of the Public Offering Entity and the Company may, at its own discretion, require as a condition to the effectiveness of an Exchange that an exchanging Class A Unitholder deliver to the Public Offering Entity or the Company, as the case may be, an IRS Form W-9 or other certification that the exchanging Class A Unitholder is not a “foreign person” within the meanings of Sections 1445 and 1446(f) of the Code. In the event that the Public Offering Entity or the Company has required delivery of such certification but an exchanging Class A Unitholder is unable to do so, the Public Offering Entity or the Company, as the case may be, shall nevertheless deliver or cause to be delivered to the exchanging Class A Unitholder the Class A Common Stock or Class D Common Stock, as applicable, in accordance with Section 9.9, but subject to withholding as provided in Section 9.12(a).

9.13 No Transfer of Class B Common Stock or Class C Common Stock. Except as otherwise provided by this Agreement, no Class A Unitholder may Transfer, directly or indirectly, all or any portion of its shares of Class B Common Stock or Class C Common Stock or any rights therein (voting or otherwise) to any other Person.

9.14 Tender Offers and Other Events with Respect to the Public Offering Entity(b) . In the event that a tender offer, share exchange offer, issuer bid, takeover bid, recapitalization or similar transaction with respect to Class A Common Stock (each of the foregoing, an “Offer”) is proposed by the Public Offering Entity or is proposed to the Public Offering Entity or its stockholders and approved by the Corporate Board or is otherwise effected or to be effected with the consent or approval of the Corporate Board, the Public Offering Entity shall provide written notice of an Offer to all Class A Unitholders within the earlier of (a) five (5) Business Days following the execution of an agreement (if applicable) with respect to, or the commencement of (if applicable), such Offer and (b) ten (10) Business Days before the proposed date upon which such Offer is to be effected, including in such notice such information as may reasonably describe such Offer, subject to applicable laws, including the date of execution of such agreement (if applicable) or of such commencement (if applicable), the material terms of such Offer, including the amount and types of consideration to be received by holders of shares of Class A Common Stock in such Offer, any election with respect to types of consideration that a holder of shares of Class A Common Stock, as applicable, shall be entitled to make in connection with such Offer, and the number of Units (and the corresponding shares of Class B Common Stock or Class C Common Stock, as applicable) held by such Class A Unitholder that is applicable to such Offer. The Class A Unitholders shall be permitted to participate in such Offer by delivery of an Exchange Notice (which Exchange Notice shall be effective immediately prior to the consummation of such Offer, and, for the avoidance of doubt, shall be contingent upon such Offer and not be effective if such Offer is not consummated). In the case of an Offer proposed by the Public Offering Entity, the Public Offering Entity will use its commercially reasonable efforts expeditiously and in good faith to take all such actions and do all such things as are necessary or desirable to enable and permit the Class A Unitholders to participate in such Offer to the same extent or on an economically equivalent basis as the holders of shares of Class A Common Stock without discrimination. For the avoidance of doubt, in no event shall the Class A Unitholders be entitled to receive in such Offer aggregate consideration for each Combined Unit that is greater than the consideration payable in respect of each share of Class A Common Stock in connection with an Offer (it being understood that payments under or in respect of the Tax Receivable Agreement shall not be considered part of any such consideration).

 

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ARTICLE X

ADMISSION OF MEMBERS

10.1 Substituted Members. In connection with the Transfer of Units of a Unitholder permitted under the terms of this Agreement, the Equity Agreements (if applicable), and the other agreements contemplated hereby and thereby, the Transferee shall become a Substituted Member on the later of (a) the effective date of such Transfer, and (b) the date on which the Manager approves such Transferee as a Substituted Member, and such admission shall be shown on the books and records of the Company; provided, however, that in connection with the Transfer of Units to a Permitted Transferee, the Transferee shall become a Substituted Member on the effective date of such Transfer.

10.2 Additional Members. A Person may be admitted to the Company as an additional Member (an “Additional Member”) only as contemplated under Section 3.1 and only upon furnishing to the Company (a) a letter of acceptance, in form satisfactory to the Manager, of all the terms and conditions of this Agreement, including the power of attorney granted in Section 14.1, and (b) such other documents or instruments as may be deemed necessary or appropriate by the Manager to effect such Person’s admission as a Member. Such admission shall become effective on the date on which the Manager determines that such conditions have been satisfied and when any such admission is shown on the books and records of the Company.

ARTICLE XI

WITHDRAWAL AND RESIGNATION OF UNITHOLDERS

11.1 Withdrawal and Resignation of Unitholders. No Unitholder shall have the power or right to withdraw or otherwise resign from the Company prior to the dissolution and winding up of the Company pursuant to Article XII without the prior written consent of the Manager, except as otherwise expressly permitted by this Agreement or any of the other agreements contemplated hereby. Upon a Transfer of all of a Unitholder’s Units in a Transfer permitted by each of this Agreement and applicable Equity Agreements, such Unitholder shall (subject to the provisions of Section 9.4) cease to be a Unitholder. Notwithstanding that payment on account of a withdrawal may be made after the effective time of such withdrawal, any completely withdrawing Unitholder will not be considered a Unitholder for any purpose after the effective time of such complete withdrawal, and, in the case of a partial withdrawal, such Unitholder’s Capital Account (and corresponding voting and other rights) shall be reduced for all other purposes hereunder upon the effective time of such partial withdrawal.

 

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ARTICLE XII

DISSOLUTION AND LIQUIDATION

12.1 Dissolution. The Company shall not be dissolved by the admission of Additional Members or Substituted Members. The Company shall dissolve, and its affairs shall be wound up upon the first of the following to occur:

(a) Manager approval of dissolution; or

(b) the entry of a decree of judicial dissolution of the Company under Section 35-5 of the Delaware Act or an administrative dissolution under Section 18-802 of the Delaware Act.

Except as otherwise set forth in this Article XII, the Company is intended to have perpetual existence. An Event of Withdrawal shall not cause a dissolution of the Company and the Company shall continue in existence subject to the terms and conditions of this Agreement.

12.2 Liquidation and Termination. Upon the dissolution of the Company, the Manager shall act as liquidator or may appoint one or more representatives, Members or other Persons as liquidator(s). The liquidators shall proceed diligently to wind up the affairs of the Company as provided herein, in the Delaware Act (including in a manner that avoids the imposition of personal liability upon any Unitholder, Manager or officer pursuant to such requirements). The costs of liquidation shall be borne as a Company expense. Until payment of the final liquidating Distribution to the Unitholders, the liquidators shall continue to operate the Company’s properties with all of the power and authority of the Manager. The steps to be accomplished by the liquidators are as follows:

(a) The liquidators shall pay, satisfy or discharge from the Company funds all of the debts, liabilities and obligations of the Company (including all expenses incurred in liquidation) or otherwise make adequate provision for payment and discharge thereof (including the establishment of a cash fund for contingent liabilities in such amount and for such term as the liquidators may reasonably determine).

(b) As promptly as practicable after dissolution, the liquidators shall cause the remaining Company assets (the “Liquidation Assets”) to be distributed among the Unitholders in accordance with Section 4.1(b).

(c) Prior to distribution of Liquidation Assets, any non-cash Liquidation Assets will first be written up or down to their Fair Market Value, thus creating Profit or Loss (if any), which shall be allocated in accordance with Sections 4.2 and 4.3. After taking into account such allocations, it is anticipated that each Unitholder’s Capital Account, on a per Unit basis, would be uniform. If any Unitholder’s Capital Account is not so uniform, then gross items of income, gain, deduction and loss for the Fiscal Year in which the Company is dissolved shall be allocated among the Unitholders in such a manner as to cause, to the extent possible, each Unitholder’s Adjusted Capital Account Balance to be equal to the amount to be distributed to such Unitholder pursuant to Section 4.1. If the Distribution of any non-cash Liquidation Asset cannot be made to a recipient because the recipient lacks a particular license, then (i) such non-cash Liquidation Asset must be first liquidated or (ii) such non-cash Liquidation Asset shall be Transferred to (A) such recipient’s Affiliate that is so licensed or (B) another Unitholder that is so licensed (if such other Unitholder agrees to relinquish to such unlicensed recipient an equivalent amount of Liquidation Assets that do not require the recipient to be licensed).

 

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(d) The Distribution of cash and/or property to a Unitholder in accordance with the provisions of this Section 12.2 constitutes a complete return to the Unitholder of its Capital Contributions and a complete Distribution to the Unitholder of its interest in the Company and all Company property and constitutes a compromise to which all Unitholders have consented within the meaning of the Delaware Act. To the extent that a Unitholder returns funds to the Company, it has no claim against any other Unitholder for those funds.

12.3 Securityholders Agreement. To the extent that units or other equity securities of any Subsidiary of the Company are distributed to any Unitholders and unless otherwise agreed to by the Manager, such Unitholders hereby agree to enter into a securityholders agreement with such Subsidiary and each other Unitholder that contains restrictions on the Transfer of such equity securities and other provisions (including with respect to the governance and control of such Subsidiary) in form and substance similar to the provisions and restrictions set forth herein (including in Article V and Article IX).

12.4 Cancellation of Certificate. On completion of the Distribution of Company assets as provided herein, the Company is terminated (and the Company shall not be terminated prior to such time), and the Manager (or such other Person or Persons as the Delaware Act may require or permit) shall file a certificate of cancellation with the Secretary of State of Delaware, cancel any other filings made pursuant to this Agreement that are or should be canceled and take such other actions as may be necessary to terminate the Company. The Company shall be deemed to continue in existence for all purposes of this Agreement until it is terminated pursuant to this Section 12.4.

12.5 Reasonable Time for Winding Up. A reasonable time shall be allowed for the orderly winding up of the business and affairs of the Company and the liquidation of its assets pursuant to Section 12.2 in order to minimize any Losses otherwise attendant upon such winding up.

12.6 Return of Capital. The liquidators shall not be personally liable for the return of Capital Contributions or any portion thereof to the Unitholders (it being understood that any such return shall be made solely from Company assets).

12.7 Hart-Scott-Rodino. In the event that the HSR Act is applicable to any Unitholder, the dissolution of the Company shall not be consummated until such time as the applicable waiting period (and extensions thereof) under the HSR Act have expired or otherwise been terminated with respect to each such Unitholder.

ARTICLE XIII

VALUATION

13.1 Valuation of Subsidiary Securities. The Fair Market Value of any equity securities of any Subsidiary of the Company means the average of the closing prices of the sales of the securities on all securities exchanges on which the securities may at the time be listed, or, if there have been no sales on any such exchange on any day, then the average of the highest bid and lowest asked prices on all such exchanges at the end of such day, or, if on any day such securities are not

 

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so listed, then the average of the representative bid and asked prices quoted in the New York Stock Exchange system as of 4:00 P.M., New York time, or, if on any day such securities are not quoted in the New York Stock Exchange system, then the average of the highest bid and lowest asked prices on such day in the domestic over-the-counter market as reported by the National Quotation Bureau Incorporated, or any similar successor organization, in each such case averaged over a period of twenty-one (21) days consisting of the day as of which the Fair Market Value is being determined and the twenty (20) consecutive Business Days prior to such day. If the dissolution and liquidation (or deemed dissolution and liquidation) of the Company occurs in connection with the public offering of any Subsidiary of the Company, then the Fair Market Value of each equity security of such Subsidiary shall equal the price at which such securities are initially offered to the public in connection with such public offering. If at any time the equity securities of a Subsidiary are not listed on any securities exchange or quoted in the Nasdaq System or the over-the-counter market, and the dissolution and liquidation (or deemed dissolution and liquidation) of the Company does not occur in connection with a public offering of such Subsidiary, then the Fair Market Value of each such security shall be equal to the fair value thereof as of the date of valuation as determined by the Manager on the basis of an orderly sale to a willing, unaffiliated buyer in an arm’s length transaction, taking into account all factors it deems relevant.

13.2 Valuation of Other Assets and Company Securities. The Fair Market Value of all other non-cash assets or of any Units or other securities issued by the Company means the fair value for such assets or securities as between a willing buyer and a willing seller in an arm’s-length transaction occurring on the date of valuation as determined by the Manager, taking into account all relevant factors determinative of value (and giving effect to any transfer taxes payable or discounts in connection with such sale).

13.3 Valuation of Other Securities. In determining Fair Market Value of any other securities, the Manager shall make such determination on the basis of an orderly sale to a willing, unaffiliated buyer in an arm’s-length transaction, taking into account all relevant factors.

ARTICLE XIV

GENERAL PROVISIONS

14.1 Power of Attorney. Each Unitholder hereby constitutes and appoints the Manager and the liquidators, with full power of substitution, as such Unitholder’s true and lawful agent and attorney-in-fact, with full power and authority in his or its name, place and stead, to execute, swear to, acknowledge, deliver, file and record in the appropriate public offices (a) this Agreement, all certificates and other instruments and all amendments thereof in accordance with the terms hereof that the Manager deems appropriate or necessary to form, qualify, or continue the qualification of, the Company as a limited liability company in the State of Delaware and in all other jurisdictions in which the Company may conduct business or own property; (b) all instruments that the Manager deems appropriate or necessary to reflect any appropriately authorized amendment, change, modification or restatement of this Agreement in accordance with its terms; (c) all conveyances and other instruments or documents that the Manager and/or the liquidators deems appropriate or necessary to reflect the dissolution and liquidation of the Company pursuant to the terms of this Agreement, including a certificate of cancellation; and (d) all instruments relating to the admission, withdrawal or substitution of any Unitholder pursuant to Article X or Article XI. The foregoing power of attorney is irrevocable and coupled with an interest, and shall survive the death, Disability, incapacity, dissolution, bankruptcy, insolvency or termination of any Unitholder and the Transfer of all or any portion of his, her or its Units and shall extend to such Unitholder’s heirs, successors, assigns and personal representatives.

 

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14.2 Amendments. This Agreement may be amended, modified, or waived upon the written consent of the Public Offering Entity; provided, however, that (i) any amendment, modification or waiver of Sections 9.9 through 9.14 and (ii) any amendment, modification, or waiver that would adversely affect in any material respect the rights or obligations of any holder of Class A Common Units other than the Public Offering Entity in any manner that is materially and adversely disproportionate relative to the effect on Class A Common Units held by the Public Offering Entity, in each case, shall require the written consent of the holders of at least a majority of the Class A Common Units not held by the Public Offering Entity, voting together as a single class; provided, further, that in each case of the foregoing clauses and notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, so long as the Tax Receivable Agreement remains outstanding and in effect, no amendment or modification may be made to this Agreement that is materially and disproportionately adverse to the TRA Recipients without the prior written consent of the TRA Recipients entitled to a majority of the Tax Benefit Payments (as defined in the Tax Receivable Agreement).

14.3 Title to Company Assets. Company assets shall be deemed to be owned by the Company as an entity, and no Unitholder, individually or collectively, shall have any ownership interest in such Company assets or any portion thereof. Legal title to any or all Company assets may be held in the name of the Company or one or more nominees, as the Manager may determine. The Manager hereby declares and warrants that any Company assets for which legal title is held in the name of any nominee shall be held in trust by such nominee for the use and benefit of the Company in accordance with the provisions of this Agreement. All Company assets shall be recorded as the property of the Company on its books and records, irrespective of the name in which legal title to such Company assets is held.

14.4 Successors and Assigns. Except as otherwise provided herein, all covenants and agreements contained in this Agreement shall bind and inure to the benefit of the parties hereto and their respective heirs, executors, administrators, successors, legal representatives and permitted assigns, whether so expressed or not.

14.5 Severability. Whenever possible, each provision of this Agreement will be interpreted in such manner as to be effective and valid under applicable law, but if any provision of this Agreement is held to be invalid, illegal or unenforceable in any respect under any applicable law or rule in any jurisdiction, such invalidity, illegality or unenforceability will not affect any other provision or the effectiveness or validity of any provision in any other jurisdiction, and this Agreement will be reformed, construed and enforced in such jurisdiction as if such invalid, illegal or unenforceable provision had never been contained herein.

14.6 Counterparts; Binding Agreement. This Agreement may be executed simultaneously in two or more separate counterparts (including by means of facsimile), any one of which need not contain the signatures of more than one party, but each of which will be an original and all of which together shall constitute one and the same agreement binding on all the parties hereto. This Agreement and all of the provisions hereof shall be binding upon and effective

 

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as to each Person who (a) executes this Agreement in the appropriate space provided in the signature pages hereto notwithstanding the fact that other Persons who have not executed this Agreement may be listed on the signature pages hereto, and (b) may from time to time become a party to this Agreement by executing a counterpart of or joinder to this Agreement.

14.7 Descriptive Headings; Interpretation. The descriptive headings of this Agreement are inserted for convenience only and do not constitute a substantive part of this Agreement. Whenever required by the context, any pronoun used in this Agreement shall include the corresponding masculine, feminine or neuter forms, and the singular form of nouns, pronouns and verbs shall include the plural and vice versa. The use of the word “including” in this Agreement shall be by way of example rather than by limitation (thus the words “include”, “includes” and “including” when used in this Agreement shall be deemed to be followed by the phrase “without limitation”). Reference to any agreement, document or instrument means such agreement, document or instrument as amended or otherwise modified from time to time in accordance with the terms thereof, and if applicable hereof. Whenever required by the context, references to a Fiscal Year shall refer to a portion thereof. The use of the words “or”, “either” and “any” shall not be exclusive. The parties hereto have participated jointly in the negotiation and drafting of this Agreement. In the event that an ambiguity or question of intent or interpretation arises, this Agreement shall be construed as if drafted jointly by the parties hereto, and no presumption or burden of proof shall arise favoring or disfavoring any party by virtue of the authorship of any of the provisions of this Agreement. Wherever a conflict exists between this Agreement and any other agreement, this Agreement shall control but solely to the extent of such conflict.

14.8 Applicable Law; Venue; Jury Trial Waiver. This Agreement shall be governed by, and construed in accordance with, the laws of the State of Delaware, without giving effect to any choice of law or conflict of law rules or provisions (whether of the State of Delaware or any other jurisdiction) that would cause the application of the laws of any jurisdiction other than the State of Delaware. Except as otherwise expressly provided in this Agreement, any dispute relating hereto shall be heard in the state or federal courts of the State of Delaware and each party hereto waives any defense or objection to such jurisdiction and venue, including any defense based on lack of jurisdiction or inconvenient forum. TO THE EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, EACH OF THE PARTIES HERETO (INCLUDING EACH MEMBER) IRREVOCABLY WAIVES ALL RIGHT TO A TRIAL BY JURY IN ANY SUIT, ACTION OR OTHER PROCEEDING INSTITUTED BY OR AGAINST SUCH PARTY IN RESPECT OF ITS, HIS OR HER OBLIGATIONS HEREUNDER.

14.9 Addresses and Notices. All notices, demands and other communications to be given or delivered under or by reason of the provisions of this Agreement shall be in writing and shall be deemed to have been given (a) when personally delivered, sent by telecopy or email (in each case, with hard copy to follow) or sent by reputable overnight express courier (charges prepaid), or (b) three (3) days following mailing by certified or registered mail, postage prepaid and return receipt requested. Such notices, demands, and other communications shall be sent to the address for such recipient set forth in the Company’s books and records or to such other address or to the attention of such other Person as the recipient party has specified by prior written notice to the sending party.

 

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14.10 Creditors. None of the provisions of this Agreement shall be for the benefit of or enforceable by any creditors of the Company or any of its Affiliates, and no creditor who makes a loan to the Company or any of its Affiliates may have or acquire (except pursuant to the terms of a separate agreement executed by the Company in favor of such creditor) at any time as a result of making the loan any direct or indirect interest in Profits, Losses, Distributions, capital or property or the rights of the Manager to require Capital Contributions other than as a secured creditor.

14.11 Waiver. No failure by any party to insist upon the strict performance of any covenant, duty, agreement or condition of this Agreement or to exercise any right or remedy consequent upon a breach thereof shall constitute a waiver of any such breach or any other covenant, duty, agreement or condition.

14.12 Further Action. The parties agree to execute and deliver all documents, provide all information and take or refrain from taking such actions as may be necessary or appropriate to achieve the purposes of this Agreement. No Unitholder may take any action or approve any action in contravention of any Manager action.

14.13 Entire Agreement. This Agreement and those documents expressly referred to herein embody the complete agreement and understanding among the parties and supersede and preempt any prior understandings, agreements or representations by or among the parties, written or oral, which may have related to the subject matter hereof in any way. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, this Agreement and the documents expressly referred to herein supersede the Prior Agreement in its entirety.

14.14 Opt-in to Article 8 of the Uniform Commercial Code. The Unitholders hereby agree that the Units shall be securities governed by Article 8 of the Uniform Commercial Code of the State of Delaware (and the Uniform Commercial Code of any other applicable jurisdiction)

14.15 Delivery by Facsimile or PDF. This Agreement, the agreements referred to herein, and each other agreement or instrument entered into in connection herewith or therewith or contemplated hereby or thereby, and any amendments hereto or thereto, to the extent signed and delivered by means of a facsimile machine, electronic transmission in portable document format (“pdf”) or the electronic matching of terms on the electronic platform DocuSign, shall be treated in all manner and respects as an original agreement or instrument and shall be considered to have the same binding legal effect as if it were the original signed version thereof delivered in person. At the request of any party hereto or to any such agreement or instrument, each other party hereto or thereto shall re-execute original forms thereof and deliver them to all other parties. No party hereto or to any such agreement or instrument shall raise the use of a facsimile machine or electronic transmission in pdf to deliver a signature or the fact that any signature or agreement or instrument was transmitted or communicated through the use of a facsimile machine or electronic transmission in pdf or through the electronic matching of terms on the electronic platform DocuSign as a defense to the formation or enforceability of a contract and each such party forever waives any such defense.

14.16 Survival. Sections 4.4, 5.8, 6.1, 5.6, 6.4, 6.8, 8.3 and 9.12 shall survive and continue in full force in accordance with their respective terms notwithstanding any termination of this Agreement or the dissolution of the Company.

 

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14.17 Tax and Other Advice. Each Member has had the opportunity to consult with such Member’s own Tax and other advisors with respect to the consequences to such Member of the purchase, receipt or ownership of the Units, including the Tax consequences under federal, state, local, and other income Tax laws of the United States or any other country and the possible effects of changes in such Tax laws. Such Member acknowledges that none of the Company, its Subsidiaries, Affiliates, successors, beneficiaries, heirs and assigns and its and their past and present directors, officers, employees, and agents (including their attorneys) makes or has made any representations or warranties to such Member regarding the consequences to such Member of the purchase, receipt or ownership of the Units, including the Tax consequences under federal, state, local and other Tax laws of the United States or any other country and the possible effects of changes in such Tax laws.

14.18 Acknowledgments. Upon execution and delivery of a counterpart to this Agreement or a joinder to this Agreement, each Member (including each Substituted Member and each Additional Member) shall be deemed to acknowledge to the Company and the Public Offering Entity as follows: (a) the determination of such Member to acquire Units pursuant to this Agreement or any other agreement has been made by such Member independent of any other Member and independent of any statements or opinions as to the advisability of such purchase or as to the properties, business, prospects or condition (financial or otherwise) of any Group Company that may have been made or given by any other Member or by any agent or employee of any other Member, (b) no other Member has acted as an agent of such Member in connection with making its investment hereunder and that no other Member shall be acting as an agent of such Member in connection with monitoring its investment hereunder, (c) any Group Company (including the Public Offering Entity) have retained Kirkland & Ellis LLP in connection with the transactions contemplated hereby, (d) except for Kirkland & Ellis’s representation of the WCAS Unitholders, Kirkland & Ellis LLP is not representing and will not represent any other Member in connection with the transaction contemplated hereby or any dispute that may arise between any Group Company, on the one hand, and any other Member, on the other hand, (e) such Member will, if it wishes counsel on the transactions contemplated hereby, retain its own independent counsel, and (f) Kirkland & Ellis LLP may represent any Group Company in connection with any and all matters contemplated hereby (including any dispute between any Group Company, on the one hand, and any other Member, on the other hand) and such Member waives any conflict of interest in connection with such representation by Kirkland & Ellis LLP.

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned have executed or caused to be executed on their behalf this Third Amended and Restated Limited Liability Company Agreement as of the date first above written.

 

COMPANY:
CWAN HOLDINGS, LLC
By:  

/s/ Jim Cox

Name:   Jim Cox
Title:   Chief Financial Officer
PUBLIC OFFERING ENTITY:
CLEARWATER ANALYTICS HOLDINGS, INC.
By:  

/s/ Jim Cox

Name:   Jim Cox
Title:   Chief Financial Officer

Signature Page to Third Amended and Restated Limited Liability Company Agreement


IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned have executed or caused to be executed on their behalf this Third Amended and Restated Limited Liability Company Agreement as of the date first above written.

 

DRAGONEER INVESTOR:
CALCULATED DF HOLDINGS, LP
By:  

/s/ Pat Robertson

Name: Pat Robertson
Title: Authorized Signatory

Signature Page to Third Amended and Restated Limited Liability Company Agreement


IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned have executed or caused to be executed on their behalf this Third Amended and Restated Limited Liability Company Agreement as of the date first above written.

 

SOCKEYE UNITHOLDERS:
SOCKEYE TRADING COMPANY INC.
By:  

/s/ Doug Bates

Name: Doug Bates
Title: Authorized Signatory

Signature Page to Third Amended and Restated Limited Liability Company Agreement


IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned have executed or caused to be executed on their behalf this Third Amended and Restated Limited Liability Company Agreement as of the date first above written.

 

WCAS UNITHOLDERS:
WCAS XII CARBON ANALYTICS ACQUISITION, L.P.
By: WCAS XII Associates LLC, its General Partner
By:  

/s/ Jonathan M. Rather

Name:   Jonathan M. Rather
Title:   Managing Member
WCAS XIII CARBON ANALYTICS ACQUISITION, L.P.
By: WCAS XIII Associates LLC, its General Partner
By:  

/s/ Jonathan Rather

Name:   Jonathan Rather
Title:   Managing Member
WCAS GP CW LLC
By:  

/s/ Jonathan Rather

Name:   Jonathan Rather
Title:   Managing Member

Signature Page to Third Amended and Restated Limited Liability Company Agreement


WELSH, CARSON, ANDERSON & STOWE XII, L.P.
By: WCAS XII Associates LLC, its General Partner
By:  

/s/ Jonathan Rather

Name:   Jonathan Rather
Title:   Managing Member
WELSH, CARSON, ANDERSON & STOWE XII DELAWARE L.P.
By: WCAS XII Associates Cayman, L.P., its General Partner
By:  

/s/ Jonathan Rather

Name:   Jonathan Rather
Title:   Managing Member
WELSH, CARSON, ANDERSON & STOWE XII DELAWARE II, L.P.
By: WCAS XII Associates LLC, its General Partner
By:  

/s/ Jonathan Rather

Name:   Jonathan Rather
Title:   Managing Member
WELSH, CARSON, ANDERSON & STOWE XII CAYMAN, L.P.
By: WCAS XII Associates Cayman, L.P., its General Partner
By:  

/s/ Jonathan Rather

Name:   Jonathan Rather
Title:   Managing Member

Signature Page to Third Amended and Restated Limited Liability Company Agreement


WCAS XII CARBON INVESTORS, L.P.
By: WCAS XII Associates LLC, its General Partner
By:  

/s/ Jonathan Rather

Name:   Jonathan Rather
Title:   Managing Member
WCAS XIII CARBON INVESTORS, L.P.
By: WCAS XIII Associates LLC, its General Partner
By:  

/s/ Jonathan Rather

Name:   Jonathan Rather
Title:   Managing Member
WCAS XIII, L.P.
By: WCAS XIII Associates LLC, its General Partner
By:  

/s/ Jonathan Rather

Name:   Jonathan Rather
Title:   Managing Member
WCAS XIII CAYMAN, L.P.
By: WCAS XIII Associates LLC, its General Partner
By:  

/s/ Jonathan Rather

Name:   Jonathan Rather
Title:   Managing Member

Signature Page to Third Amended and Restated Limited Liability Company Agreement

 

 

 


IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned have executed or caused to be executed on their behalf this Third Amended and Restated Limited Liability Company Agreement as of the date first above written.

 

MANAGEMENT UNITHOLDERS:
CARBON ANALYTICS MANAGEMENT HOLDINGS LLC
By:  

/s/ Sandeep Sahai

Name: Sandeep Sahai
Title: Authorized Signatory

Signature Page to Third Amended and Restated Limited Liability Company Agreement


IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned have executed or caused to be executed on their behalf this Third Amended and Restated Limited Liability Company Agreement as of the date first above written.

 

KATHLEEN A. CORBET
By:   /s/ Kathleen A. Corbet
Name:   Kathleen A. Corbet

Signature Page to Third Amended and Restated Limited Liability Company Agreement


IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned have executed or caused to be executed on their behalf this Third Amended and Restated Limited Liability Company Agreement as of the date first above written.

 

MARCUS RYU
By:   /s/ Marcus Ryu
Name:   Marcus Ryu

Signature Page to Third Amended and Restated Limited Liability Company Agreement


IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned have executed or caused to be executed on their behalf this Third Amended and Restated Limited Liability Company Agreement as of the date first above written.

 

JACQUES AIGRAIN
By:   /s/ Jacques Aigrain
Name:   Jacques Aigrain

Signature Page to Third Amended and Restated Limited Liability Company Agreement


IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned have executed or caused to be executed on their behalf this Third Amended and Restated Limited Liability Company Agreement as of the date first above written.

 

TYLER HAWS
By:   /s/ Tyler Haws
Name:   Tyler Haws

Signature Page to Third Amended and Restated Limited Liability Company Agreement

Exhibit 10.5

EXECUTION

CREDIT AGREEMENT

consisting of

a $55,000,000

Term Loan Facility,

and

a $125,000,000

Revolving Credit Facility

effective as of

September 28, 2021

by and among

CWAN ACQUISITION, LLC,

as Holdings

CLEARWATER ANALYTICS, LLC,

as the Borrower

The Lenders and Issuing Banks Party Hereto from Time to Time

JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, N.A.,

as Administrative Agent, Collateral Agent and Revolver Agent,

THE OTHER FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS PARTY HERETO

JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, N.A.,

as Lead Arranger

and

JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, N.A.,

GOLDMAN SACHS BANK USA,

MORGAN STANLEY SENIOR FUNDING, INC.,

CREDIT SUISSE AG, ROYAL BANK OF CANADA, and

WELLS FARGO SECURITIES, LLC

as Joint Bookrunners


TABLE OF CONTENTS

 

         Page  
ARTICLE I   
Definitions   

SECTION 1.01

  Defined Terms      1  

SECTION 1.02

  Classification of Loans and Borrowings      53  

SECTION 1.03

  Terms Generally      53  

SECTION 1.04

  Accounting Terms; GAAP      54  

SECTION 1.05

  [Reserved]      54  

SECTION 1.06

  Available Amount Transactions      54  

SECTION 1.07

  Pro Forma Calculations      54  

SECTION 1.08

  Interest Rates; LIBOR Notification      57  

SECTION 1.09

  Divisions      58  
ARTICLE II   
The Credits   

SECTION 2.01

  Commitments      58  

SECTION 2.02

  Loans and Borrowings      59  

SECTION 2.03

  Requests for Borrowings      59  

SECTION 2.04

  Swingline Loans      60  

SECTION 2.05

  Letters of Credit      62  

SECTION 2.06

  Funding of Borrowings      66  

SECTION 2.07

  Interest Elections      67  

SECTION 2.08

  Termination and Reduction of Commitments      68  

SECTION 2.09

  Repayment of Loans; Evidence of Debt      69  

SECTION 2.10

  Amortization of Term Loans      70  

SECTION 2.11

  Prepayment of Loans      71  

SECTION 2.12

  Fees      74  

SECTION 2.13

  Interest      75  

SECTION 2.14

  Alternate Rate of Interest; Illegality      76  

SECTION 2.15

  Increased Costs      78  

SECTION 2.16

  Break Funding Payments      80  

SECTION 2.17

  Taxes      80  

SECTION 2.18

  Payments Generally; Pro Rata Treatment; Sharing of Setoffs      84  

SECTION 2.19

  Mitigation Obligations; Replacement of Lenders      87  

SECTION 2.20

  Incremental Extensions of Credit      88  

SECTION 2.21

  Extended Term Loans and Extended Revolving Commitments      94  

SECTION 2.22

  Defaulting Lenders      95  

 

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ARTICLE III   
Representations and Warranties   

SECTION 3.01

  Organization; Power      97  

SECTION 3.02

  Authorization; Enforceability      98  

SECTION 3.03

  Governmental Approvals; No Conflicts      98  

SECTION 3.04

  Financial Condition; No Material Adverse Effect      98  

SECTION 3.05

  Properties      99  

SECTION 3.06

  Litigation and Environmental Matters      99  

SECTION 3.07

  Compliance with Laws and Agreements      100  

SECTION 3.08

  Investment Company Status      100  

SECTION 3.09

  Taxes      100  

SECTION 3.10

  ERISA      100  

SECTION 3.11

  Disclosure      100  

SECTION 3.12

  Subsidiaries      100  

SECTION 3.13

  [Reserved]      101  

SECTION 3.14

  [Reserved]      101  

SECTION 3.15

  Labor Matters      101  

SECTION 3.16

  Solvency      101  

SECTION 3.17

  Federal Reserve Regulations      101  

SECTION 3.18

  [Reserved]      101  

SECTION 3.19

  [Reserved]      102  

SECTION 3.20

  Patriot Act, Etc.      102  

SECTION 3.21

  Security Documents      102  

SECTION 3.22

  [Reserved]      102  

SECTION 3.23

  [Reserved]      102  

SECTION 3.24

  EEA Financial Institution      102  
ARTICLE IV   
Conditions   

SECTION 4.01

  Closing Date      102  

SECTION 4.02

  Each Credit Event      103  
ARTICLE V   
Affirmative Covenants   

SECTION 5.01

  Financial Statements and Other Information      105  

SECTION 5.02

  Notices of Material Events      107  

SECTION 5.03

  Information Regarding Collateral      107  

SECTION 5.04

  Existence; Conduct of Business      107  

SECTION 5.05

  Payment of Obligations      108  

SECTION 5.06

  Maintenance of Properties      108  

SECTION 5.07

  Insurance      108  

 

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         Page  

SECTION 5.08

  [Reserved]      108  

SECTION 5.09

  Books and Records; Inspection and Audit Rights      108  

SECTION 5.10

  Compliance with Laws      108  

SECTION 5.11

  Use of Proceeds and Letters of Credit      109  

SECTION 5.12

  Additional Subsidiaries; Succeeding Holdings      109  

SECTION 5.13

  Further Assurances      110  

SECTION 5.14

  Designation of Subsidiaries      110  

SECTION 5.15

  Post-Closing Matters      110  
ARTICLE VI   
Negative Covenants   

SECTION 6.01

  Indebtedness; Certain Equity Interests      111  

SECTION 6.02

  Liens      114  

SECTION 6.03

  Fundamental Changes      116  

SECTION 6.04

  Investments, Loans, Advances, Guarantees and Acquisitions      117  

SECTION 6.05

  Asset Sales      119  

SECTION 6.06

  Additional Limitations on Intellectual Property Transfers      122  

SECTION 6.07

  [Reserved]      122  

SECTION 6.08

  Restricted Payments; Certain Payments of Indebtedness      122  

SECTION 6.09

  Transactions with Affiliates      126  

SECTION 6.10

  Restrictive Agreements      128  

SECTION 6.11

  Amendment of Material Documents      129  

SECTION 6.12

  Maximum Secured Net Leverage Ratio      129  

SECTION 6.13

  Fiscal Year      129  
ARTICLE VII   
Events of Default   

SECTION 7.01

  Events of Default      129  

SECTION 7.02

  Borrower’s Right to Cure      132  

SECTION 7.03

  Exclusion of Immaterial Subsidiaries      133  
ARTICLE VIII   
The Administrative Agent   
ARTICLE IX   
Miscellaneous   

SECTION 9.01

  Notices      146  

SECTION 9.02

  Waivers; Amendments      148  

SECTION 9.03

  Expenses; Limitation of Liability; Indemnity; Damage Waiver      152  

SECTION 9.04

  Successors and Assigns      154  

SECTION 9.05

  Survival      161  

 

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SECTION 9.06

  Counterparts; Integration; Effectiveness      162  

SECTION 9.07

  Severability      163  

SECTION 9.08

  Right of Setoff      163  

SECTION 9.09

  Governing Law; Jurisdiction; Consent to Service of Process      164  

SECTION 9.10

  WAIVER OF JURY TRIAL      165  

SECTION 9.11

  Headings      165  

SECTION 9.12

  Confidentiality      165  

SECTION 9.13

  Interest Rate Limitation      166  

SECTION 9.14

  USA Patriot Act      166  

SECTION 9.15

  Release of Collateral      167  

SECTION 9.16

  No Fiduciary Duty      167  

SECTION 9.17

  [Reserved]      168  

SECTION 9.18

  Material Non-Public Information      168  

SECTION 9.19

  Acknowledgment and Consent to Bail-In of Affected Financial Institutions      168  

SECTION 9.20

  [Reserved]      169  

SECTION 9.21

  [Reserved]      169  

SECTION 9.22

  Acknowledgement Regarding Any Supported QFCs      169  

 

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SCHEDULES:   
Schedule 2.01    Commitments
Schedule 3.06    Litigation and Environmental Matters
Schedule 3.12    Subsidiaries
Schedule 5.15    Post-Closing Matters
Schedule 6.01    Existing Indebtedness
Schedule 6.02    Existing Liens
Schedule 6.04    Existing Investments
Schedule 6.05    Asset Sales
Schedule 6.09    Existing Transactions with Affiliates
Schedule 6.10    Existing Restrictions
EXHIBITS:   
Exhibit A    Form of Assignment and Assumption
Exhibit B    Form of Collateral Agreement
Exhibit C    Closing Checklist
Exhibit D    Form of Borrowing Request
Exhibit E    Form of Interest Election Request
Exhibit F    Form of Compliance Certificate
Exhibit G    Form of Solvency Certificate
Exhibit H    [Reserved]
Exhibit I    [Reserved]
Exhibit J    Form of Affiliated Lender Assignment and Assumption
Exhibits K-1 to K-4 Forms of U.S. Tax Compliance Certificates

 

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CREDIT AGREEMENT effective as of the September 28, 2021, by and among CWAN ACQUISITION, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company (“Holdings”), CLEARWATER ANALYTICS, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company (the “Borrower”), the LENDERS and ISSUING BANKS party hereto from time to time, JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, N.A., a national banking association (in its individual capacity, “JPMorgan”), as Administrative Agent, Revolver Agent, Collateral Agent, Swingline Lender and lead arranger.

The Borrower desires to, effective upon the occurrence of the Closing Date, (i) obtain Closing Date Term Loans on the Closing Date in an aggregate principal amount equal to $55,000,000 (the “Initial Term Loan Facility”) and (ii) obtain commitments under the Revolving Credit Facility equal to $125,000,000 (the “Revolving Credit Facility”).

The proceeds of Revolving Loans, Swingline Loans and Letters of Credit will be used by the Borrower for working capital and general corporate purposes (including Permitted Acquisitions). The proceeds of the Closing Date Term Loans, will be used by the Borrower on the Closing Date (i) to pay the Transaction Expenses, working capital and other general corporate purposes, (ii) to consummate the Closing Date Refinancing and (iii) for working capital and other general corporate purposes.

Effective upon the occurrence of the Closing Date, the Lenders have agreed to effect the foregoing transactions on the terms and subject to the conditions set forth herein. Accordingly, the parties hereto agree as follows:

ARTICLE I

Definitions

SECTION 1.01 Defined Terms. As used in this Agreement, the following terms have the meanings specified below:

ABR” when used in reference to any Loan or Borrowing, refers to whether such Loan, or the Loans comprising such Borrowing, are bearing interest at a rate determined by reference to the Alternate Base Rate.

Acquired Indebtedness” means, with respect to any specified Person,

(a) Indebtedness of any other Person existing at the time such other Person is merged, consolidated or amalgamated with or into or became a Restricted Subsidiary of such specified Person, and

(b) Indebtedness secured by a Lien encumbering any asset acquired by such specified Person.

Additional Credit Extension Amendment” means an amendment to this Agreement (which may, at the option of the Administrative Agent and the Revolver Agent, be in the form of an amendment and restatement of this Agreement) and any other applicable Loan Document providing for any Incremental Term Loans, loans under any Incremental Revolving Commitments, Replacement Term Loans, Extended Term Loans or loans under any Extended Revolving Commitments which shall be consistent with the applicable provisions of this Agreement relating to Incremental Term Loans, loans under any Incremental Revolving Commitments, Replacement Term Loans, Extended Term Loans or loans under any Extended Revolving Commitments and otherwise satisfactory to the Administrative Agent and the Revolver Agent.


Additional Lender” means any Person that is not an existing Lender and has agreed to provide Incremental Commitments pursuant to Section 2.20.

Adjusted LIBO Rate” means, with respect to any Eurodollar Borrowing for any Interest Period, an interest rate per annum (rounded upwards, if necessary, to the next 1/100 of 1%) equal to (a) the LIBO Rate for the applicable Class of Loans for such Interest Period multiplied by (b) the Statutory Reserve Rate.

Administrative Agent” means JPMorgan, in its capacity as administrative agent for the Lenders under the Loan Documents.

Administrative Questionnaire” means an administrative questionnaire in a form supplied by the Administrative Agent.

Affected Financial Institution” means (a) any EEA Financial Institution or (b) any UK Financial Institution.

Affiliate” means, with respect to a specified Person, any other Person that directly, or indirectly through one or more intermediaries, Controls, is Controlled by or is under common Control with the Person specified.

Affiliated Lender” means a Non-Debt Fund Affiliate or a Debt Fund Affiliate.

Affiliated Lender Assignment and Assumption” has the meaning provided in Section 9.04(d).

Affiliated Lender Register” shall have the meaning provided in Section 9.04(f).

Agents” means the Administrative Agent, the Collateral Agent, the Revolver Agent and the Arrangers.

Agreement” means this Credit Agreement, as the same may be renewed, extended, modified, supplemented, amended or amended and restated from time to time.

Alternate Base Rate” means, for any day, a rate per annum equal to the greatest of (a) the Prime Rate in effect on such day, (b) the NYFRB Rate in effect on such day plus 12 of 1% and (c) the Adjusted LIBO Rate for a one month Interest Period on such day (or if such day is not a Business Day, the immediately preceding Business Day) plus 1%; provided that for the purpose of this definition, the Adjusted LIBO Rate for any day shall be based on the LIBO Screen Rate (or if the LIBO Screen Rate is not available for such one month Interest Period, the Interpolated Rate) at approximately 11:00 a.m. London time on such day. Any change in the Alternate Base Rate due to a change in the Prime Rate, the NYFRB Rate or the Adjusted LIBO Rate shall be effective from and including the effective date of such change in the Prime Rate, the NYFRB Rate or the

 

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Adjusted LIBO Rate, respectively. If the Alternate Base Rate is being used as an alternate rate of interest pursuant to Section 2.14 (for the avoidance of doubt, only until the Benchmark Replacement has been determined pursuant to Section 2.14(b)), then the Alternate Base Rate shall be the greater of clauses (a) and (b) above and shall be determined without reference to clause (c) above. For the avoidance of doubt, if the Alternate Base Rate as determined pursuant to the foregoing would be less than 0%, such rate shall be deemed to be 0% for purposes of this Agreement.

Anti-Corruption Laws” means all laws, rules, and regulations of any jurisdiction applicable to the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries from time to time concerning or relating to bribery, money laundering or corruption by virtue of such Person being organized or operating in such jurisdiction.

Applicable Agent” means with respect to Term Lenders and Term Loans and all payments and matters relating thereto, the Administrative Agent, and with respect to the Revolving Credit Facility, Revolving Lenders, Revolving Loans, Swingline Loans, Letters of Credit and L/C Reimbursement Obligations and all payments and matters relating thereto, the Revolver Agent.

Applicable Percentage” means, with respect to any Revolving Lender, the percentage of the aggregate Revolving Commitments represented by such Lender’s Revolving Commitment; provided that in the case of Section 2.22 when a Defaulting Lender shall exist, “Applicable Percentage” shall mean, with respect to any Revolving Lender, the percentage of the total Revolving Commitments (disregarding any Defaulting Lender’s Revolving Commitment) represented by such Revolving Lender’s Revolving Commitment. If the Revolving Commitments have terminated or expired, the Applicable Percentage of the Revolving Commitments shall be determined based upon the Revolving Commitments most recently in effect, giving effect to any assignments that occur thereafter and to any Revolving Lender’s status as a Defaulting Lender at the time of determination.

Applicable Rate” means for any day with respect to (a) (i) Initial Term Loans and Revolving Credit Loans, the applicable rate per annum set forth below under the caption “Eurodollar Margin” or “ABR Margin” as the case may be and (ii) with respect to the commitment fees payable pursuant to Section 2.12(a), the applicable rate per annum set forth below under the caption “Commitment Fee”, in each case, based upon the Secured Net Leverage Ratio as of the end of the fiscal quarter of Holdings for which consolidated financial statements have theretofore been most recently delivered pursuant to Section 5.01(a) or Section 5.01(b), (b) with respect to Incremental Term Loans that are not the same Class as the Initial Term Loans, the margin to be added to ABR or LIBOR Rate, as the case may be, as agreed upon by Borrower and the Lender or Lenders providing the Incremental Term Commitment relating thereto as provided in Section 2.20, (c) with respect to Extended Term Loans, such percentage as shall be agreed to by Borrower and the applicable Extending Term Lenders as shown in the applicable Additional Credit Extension Amendment and (d) with respect to any Extended Revolving Credit Commitment, such percentage as shall be agreed to by Borrower and the applicable Revolving Credit Lenders pursuant to the applicable Additional Credit Extension Amendment; provided that for purposes of clause (a) above, until the date of the delivery of the consolidated financial statements pursuant to Section 5.01(b) as of and for the fiscal quarter ended September 30, 2021, the Applicable Rate shall be based on the rates per annum set forth in Level II.

 

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Level

  

Secured Net

Leverage Ratio

   Eurodollar
Margin
    ABR Margin     Commitment Fee  

I

  

Greater than or equal to 2.50:1.00

     2.00     1.00     0.30

II

  

Less than 2.50:1.00

     1.75     0.75     0.25

The Applicable Rate shall be re-determined quarterly on a prospective basis on the first day following the date of delivery to Administrative Agent of the certified calculation of the Secured Net Leverage Ratio pursuant to the applicable Compliance Certificate delivered pursuant to Section 5.01(d); provided, that if the Borrower fails to provide such certification within thirty (30) days from the date such certification is due pursuant to Section 5.01(d), the Applicable Rate shall be set at the rates set forth in Level I to be effective until the date on which such certification is delivered (on which date (but not retroactively), without constituting a waiver of any Default or Event of Default occasioned by the failure to timely deliver such certification, the Applicable Rate shall be set at the margin based upon the calculations disclosed by such certification).

Approved Electronic Platform” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 8.03(a).

Approved Fund” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 9.04(b).

Arranger” means, collectively, JPMorgan in its capacity as lead arranger and JPMorgan, Goldman Sachs Bank USA, Morgan Stanley Senior Funding, Inc., Credit Suisse AG, Royal Bank of Canada and Wells Fargo Securities, LLC, in their respective capacities as joint bookrunners hereunder.

ASC” means the Financial Accounting Standards Board Accounting Standards Codification.

Assignment and Assumption” means an assignment and assumption entered into by a Lender and an assignee (with the consent of any party whose consent is required by Section 9.04) and accepted by the Applicable Agent, in the form of Exhibit A or any other form (including electronic records generated by the use of an electronic platform) approved by the Administrative Agent and, in the case of any assignment with respect to a Revolving Loan, Letter of Credit or Revolving Commitment, the Revolver Agent.

Attributable Indebtedness” means, on any date, in respect of any Capital Lease Obligation of any Person, the capitalized amount thereof that would appear as a liability on a balance sheet of such Person prepared as of such date in accordance with GAAP.

Available Amount” means, at any date, an amount, not less than zero in the aggregate, determined on a cumulative basis equal to, without duplication:

(a) (i) greater of (x) $25,000,000 and (y) 35% of TTM Consolidated EBITDA as of the applicable date of determination plus (ii) 50% of the aggregate amount of the Consolidated Net Income (or, if the Consolidated Net Income is a negative number, such amount shall be deemed to be $0) accrued on a cumulative basis during the period, taken as one accounting period, beginning on January 1, 2021 and ending on the last day of the Borrower’s most recently completed fiscal quarter for which internal financial statements are available immediately preceding the date of determination (such amount attributable to this clause (a)(ii), the “Retained Net Income Basket”), plus

 

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(b) the cumulative amount of Net Proceeds of issuance of Equity Interests (other than Disqualified Stock and Equity Interests issued in connection with the exercise of a Cure Right) received by the Borrower after the Closing Date and prior to the date of determination, plus

(c) an amount equal to the net reduction in Investments made pursuant to Section 6.04(r) by the Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries after the Closing Date resulting from (A) the sale or other disposition (other than to the Borrower or a Restricted Subsidiary) of any such Investment and (B) repurchases, redemptions and repayments of such Investments and the receipt of any dividends or distributions from such Investments, plus

(d) to the extent that any Unrestricted Subsidiary of the Borrower is redesignated as a Restricted Subsidiary after the Closing Date, an amount equal to the lesser of (A) the Fair Market Value of the Borrower’s interest in such Subsidiary immediately following such redesignation and (B) the aggregate amount of the Borrower’s Investments in such Subsidiary pursuant to Section 6.04(r), plus

(e) in the event the Borrower and/or any Restricted Subsidiary of the Borrower makes any Investment pursuant to Section 6.04(r) after the Closing Date in a Person that, as a result of or in connection with such Investment, becomes a Restricted Subsidiary of the Borrower (and, if such Investment was made by a Loan Party, such Person becomes a Guarantor), an amount equal to the existing Investment of the Borrower and/or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries in such Person that was previously treated as a Restricted Payment, plus

(f) Borrower Retained Prepayment Amounts arising after the Closing Date, minus

(g) any amount of the Available Amount used to make Investments pursuant to Section 6.04(r) after the Closing Date and prior to such time, minus

(h) any amount of the Available Amount used to make Restricted Payments and prepayments of Specified Indebtedness pursuant to Section 6.08(a)(x) and Section 6.08(b)(iii) after the Closing Date and prior to such time, minus

(i) any payment of dividends in cash with respect to preferred stock of the Borrower or its Restricted Subsidiaries after the Closing Date and prior to such time.

Available Tenor” means, as of any date of determination and with respect to the then-current Benchmark, as applicable, any tenor for such Benchmark or payment period for interest calculated with reference to such Benchmark, as applicable, that is or may be used for determining the length of an Interest Period pursuant to this Agreement as of such date and not including, for the avoidance of doubt, any tenor for such Benchmark that is then-removed from the definition of “Interest Period” pursuant to clause (f) of Section 2.14.

 

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Bail-In Action” means the exercise of any Write-Down and Conversion Powers by the applicable Resolution Authority in respect of any liability of an Affected Financial Institution.

Bail-In Legislation” means (a) with respect to any EEA Member Country implementing Article 55 of Directive 2014/59/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of the European Union, the implementing law, regulation rule or requirement for such EEA Member Country from time to time which is described in the EU Bail-In Legislation Schedule and (b) with respect to the United Kingdom, Part I of the United Kingdom Banking Act 2009 (as amended from time to time) and any other law, regulation or rule applicable in the United Kingdom relating to the resolution of unsound or failing banks, investment firms or other financial institutions or their affiliates (other than through liquidation, administration or other insolvency proceedings).

Bankruptcy Code” means Title 11 of the United States Code entitled “Bankruptcy”, as now and hereafter in effect, or any successor statute.

Bankruptcy Event” means, with respect to any Person, such Person (i) becomes the subject of a voluntary or involuntary bankruptcy or insolvency proceeding, (ii) has had a receiver, conservator, trustee, administrator, custodian, assignee for the benefit of creditors or similar Person charged with the reorganization or liquidation of its business appointed for it, (iii) becomes the subject of a Bail-In Action or (iv) in the good faith determination of the Administrative Agent, has taken any action in furtherance of, or indicating its consent to, approval of, or acquiescence in, any such proceeding or appointment or has had any order for relief in such proceeding entered in respect thereof; provided that a Bankruptcy Event shall not result solely by virtue of any ownership interest, or the acquisition of any ownership interest, in such Person by a Governmental Authority or instrumentality thereof; provided, further, that such ownership interest does not result in or provide such Person with immunity from the jurisdiction of courts within the United States or from the enforcement of judgments or writs of attachment on its assets or permit such Person (or such Governmental Authority or instrumentality) to reject, repudiate, disavow or disaffirm any contracts or agreements made by such Person.

Benchmark” means, initially, LIBO Rate; provided that if a Benchmark Transition Event, a Term SOFR Transition Event or an Early Opt-in Election, as applicable, and its related Benchmark Replacement Date have occurred with respect to LIBO Rate or the then-current Benchmark, then “Benchmark” means the applicable Benchmark Replacement to the extent that such Benchmark Replacement has replaced such prior benchmark rate pursuant to clause (b) or clause (c) of Section 2.14.

Benchmark Replacement” means, for any Available Tenor, the first alternative set forth in the order below that can be determined by the Administrative Agent for the applicable Benchmark Replacement Date:

(1) the sum of: (a) Term SOFR and (b) the related Benchmark Replacement Adjustment;

(2) the sum of: (a) Daily Simple SOFR and (b) the related Benchmark Replacement Adjustment;

 

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(3) the sum of: (a) the alternate benchmark rate that has been selected and mutually agreed upon by the Administrative Agent and the Borrower as the replacement for the then-current Benchmark for the applicable Corresponding Tenor giving due consideration to (i) any selection or recommendation of a replacement benchmark rate or the mechanism for determining such a rate by the Relevant Governmental Body or (ii) any evolving or then-prevailing market convention for determining a benchmark rate as a replacement for the then-current Benchmark for dollar-denominated syndicated credit facilities at such time and (b) the related Benchmark Replacement Adjustment;

provided that, in the case of clause (1), such Unadjusted Benchmark Replacement is displayed on a screen or other information service that publishes such rate from time to time as selected by the Administrative Agent in its reasonable discretion; provided further that, notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Agreement or in any other Loan Document, upon the occurrence of a Term SOFR Transition Event, and the delivery of a Term SOFR Notice, on the applicable Benchmark Replacement Date the “Benchmark Replacement” shall revert to and shall be deemed to be the sum of (a) Term SOFR and (b) the related Benchmark Replacement Adjustment, as set forth in clause (1) of this definition (subject to the first proviso above).

If the Benchmark Replacement as determined pursuant to clause (1), (2) or (3) above would be less than the Floor, the Benchmark Replacement will be deemed to be the Floor for the purposes of this Agreement and the other Loan Documents.

Benchmark Replacement Adjustment” means, with respect to any replacement of the then-current Benchmark with an Unadjusted Benchmark Replacement for any applicable Interest Period and Available Tenor for any setting of such Unadjusted Benchmark Replacement:

(1) for purposes of clauses (1) and (2) of the definition of “Benchmark Replacement,” the first alternative set forth in the order below that can be determined by the Administrative Agent:

(a) the spread adjustment, or method for calculating or determining such spread adjustment, (which may be a positive or negative value or zero) as of the Reference Time such Benchmark Replacement is first set for such Interest Period that has been selected or recommended by the Relevant Governmental Body for the replacement of such Benchmark with the applicable Unadjusted Benchmark Replacement for the applicable Corresponding Tenor;

(b) the spread adjustment (which may be a positive or negative value or zero) as of the Reference Time such Benchmark Replacement is first set for such Interest Period that would apply to the fallback rate for a derivative transaction referencing the ISDA Definitions to be effective upon an index cessation event with respect to such Benchmark for the applicable Corresponding Tenor; and

(2) for purposes of clause (3) of the definition of “Benchmark Replacement,” the spread adjustment, or method for calculating or determining such spread adjustment, (which may be a positive or negative value or zero) that has been selected and mutually agreed upon by the Administrative Agent and the Borrower for the applicable Corresponding Tenor giving due consideration to (i) any selection or recommendation of a spread adjustment, or method for calculating or determining such spread adjustment, for the replacement of such Benchmark with

 

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the applicable Unadjusted Benchmark Replacement by the Relevant Governmental Body on the applicable Benchmark Replacement Date or (ii) any evolving or then-prevailing market convention for determining a spread adjustment, or method for calculating or determining such spread adjustment, for the replacement of such Benchmark with the applicable Unadjusted Benchmark Replacement for dollar-denominated syndicated credit facilities;

provided that, in the case of clause (1) above, such adjustment is displayed on a screen or other information service that publishes such Benchmark Replacement Adjustment from time to time as selected by the Administrative Agent in its reasonable discretion.

“Benchmark Replacement Conforming Changes” means, with respect to any Benchmark Replacement, any technical, administrative or operational changes (including changes to the definition of “Alternate Base Rate,” the definition of “Business Day,” the definition of “Interest Period,” timing and frequency of determining rates and making payments of interest, timing of borrowing requests or prepayment, conversion or continuation notices, length of lookback periods, the applicability of breakage provisions, and other technical, administrative or operational matters) that the Administrative Agent decides in its reasonable discretion may be appropriate to reflect the adoption and implementation of such Benchmark Replacement and to permit the administration thereof by the Administrative Agent in a manner substantially consistent with market practice (or, if the Administrative Agent decides that adoption of any portion of such market practice is not administratively feasible or if the Administrative Agent determines that no market practice for the administration of such Benchmark Replacement exists, in such other manner of administration as the Administrative Agent decides is reasonably necessary in connection with the administration of this Agreement and the other Loan Documents).

Benchmark Replacement Date” means the earliest to occur of the following events with respect to the then-current Benchmark:

(1) in the case of clause (1) or (2) of the definition of “Benchmark Transition Event,” the later of (a) the date of the public statement or publication of information referenced therein and (b) the date on which the administrator of such Benchmark (or the published component used in the calculation thereof) permanently or indefinitely ceases to provide all Available Tenors of such Benchmark (or such component thereof);

(2) in the case of clause (3) of the definition of “Benchmark Transition Event,” the date of the public statement or publication of information referenced therein;

(3) in the case of a Term SOFR Transition Event, the date that is thirty (30) days after the date a Term SOFR Notice is provided to the Lenders and the Borrower pursuant to Section 2.14(c); or

(4) in the case of an Early Opt-in Election, the sixth (6th) Business Day after the date notice of such Early Opt-in Election is provided to the Lenders, so long as the Administrative Agent has not received, by 5:00 p.m. (New York City time) on the fifth (5th) Business Day after the date notice of such Early Opt-in Election is provided to the Lenders, written notice of objection to such Early Opt-in Election from Lenders comprising the Required Lenders.

 

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For the avoidance of doubt, (i) if the event giving rise to the Benchmark Replacement Date occurs on the same day as, but earlier than, the Reference Time in respect of any determination, the Benchmark Replacement Date will be deemed to have occurred prior to the Reference Time for such determination and (ii) the “Benchmark Replacement Date” will be deemed to have occurred in the case of clause (1) or (2) with respect to any Benchmark upon the occurrence of the applicable event or events set forth therein with respect to all then-current Available Tenors of such Benchmark (or the published component used in the calculation thereof).

Benchmark Transition Event” means the occurrence of one or more of the following events with respect to the then-current Benchmark:

(1) a public statement or publication of information by or on behalf of the administrator of such Benchmark (or the published component used in the calculation thereof) announcing that such administrator has ceased or will cease to provide all Available Tenors of such Benchmark (or such component thereof), permanently or indefinitely, provided that, at the time of such statement or publication, there is no successor administrator that will continue to provide any Available Tenor of such Benchmark (or such component thereof);

(2) a public statement or publication of information by the regulatory supervisor for the administrator of such Benchmark (or the published component used in the calculation thereof), the Federal Reserve Board, the NYFRB, an insolvency official with jurisdiction over the administrator for such Benchmark (or such component), a resolution authority with jurisdiction over the administrator for such Benchmark (or such component) or a court or an entity with similar insolvency or resolution authority over the administrator for such Benchmark (or such component), which states that the administrator of such Benchmark (or such component) has ceased or will cease to provide all Available Tenors of such Benchmark (or such component thereof) permanently or indefinitely, provided that, at the time of such statement or publication, there is no successor administrator that will continue to provide any Available Tenor of such Benchmark (or such component thereof); or

(3) a public statement or publication of information by the regulatory supervisor for the administrator of such Benchmark (or the published component used in the calculation thereof) announcing that all Available Tenors of such Benchmark (or such component thereof) are no longer representative.

For the avoidance of doubt, a “Benchmark Transition Event” will be deemed to have occurred with respect to any Benchmark if a public statement or publication of information set forth above has occurred with respect to each then-current Available Tenor of such Benchmark (or the published component used in the calculation thereof).

Benchmark Unavailability Period” means the period (if any) (x) beginning at the time that a Benchmark Replacement Date pursuant to clauses (1) or (2) of that definition has occurred if, at such time, no Benchmark Replacement has replaced the then-current Benchmark for all purposes hereunder and under any Loan Document in accordance with Section 2.14 and (y) ending at the time that a Benchmark Replacement has replaced the then-current Benchmark for all purposes hereunder and under any Loan Document in accordance with Section 2.14.

 

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Beneficial Ownership Certification” means a certification regarding beneficial ownership or control as required by the Beneficial Ownership Regulation.

Beneficial Ownership Regulation” means 31 C.F.R. § 1010.230.

BHC Act Affiliate” of a party means an “affiliate” (as such term is defined under, and interpreted in accordance with, 12 U.S.C. 1841(k)) of such party.

Board” means the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System of the United States of America.

Board of Directors” means:

(a) with respect to a corporation, the board of directors of the corporation or any committee thereof duly authorized to act on behalf of such board,

(b) with respect to a partnership, the board of directors of the general partner of the partnership,

(c) with respect to a limited liability company, the board of managers or the managing member or members or any controlling committee of managing members thereof, and

(d) with respect to any other Person, the board or committee of such Person serving a similar function.

Borrower” has the meaning set forth in the preamble to this Agreement.

Borrower Retained Prepayment Amounts” has the meaning specified in Section 2.11(g).

Borrowing” means (a) Loans of the same Class and Type made, converted or continued on the same date and, in the case of Eurodollar Loans, as to which a single Interest Period is in effect, or (b) a Swingline Loan.

Borrowing Request” means a written request by the Borrower for a Borrowing in accordance with Section 2.03 substantially in the form of Exhibit D, or such other form as shall be approved by the Applicable Agent.

Business Day” means any day that is not a Saturday, Sunday or other day on which commercial banks in New York City are authorized or required by law to remain closed; provided that when used in connection with a Eurodollar Loan, the term “Business Day” shall also exclude any day on which banks are not open for dealings in dollar deposits in the London interbank market.

Capital Lease Obligations” of any Person means, at the time the determination is to be made, the obligations of such Person to pay rent or other amounts under any lease of (or other arrangement conveying the right to use) real or personal property, or a combination thereof, which obligations are required to be classified and accounted for as capital leases on a balance sheet of such Person under GAAP, and the amount of such obligations shall be the capitalized amount thereof determined in accordance with GAAP.

 

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Captive Insurance Subsidiary” means a Subsidiary established by the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries for the sole purpose of insuring the business, facilities and/or employees of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries.

Cash Management Agreement” means any agreement relating to Cash Management Obligations that is entered into between into by and between the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary and any Qualified Counterparty.

Cash Management Obligations” means (1) obligations owed by the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary to any Qualified Counterparty in respect of any overdraft and related liabilities arising from treasury, depository and cash management services or any automated clearing house transfers of funds entered into in the ordinary course of business and (2) the Borrower’s or any Subsidiary’s participation in commercial (or purchasing) card programs at any Qualified Counterparty in the ordinary course of business.

CFC” means a “controlled foreign corporation” within the meaning of Section 957(a) of the Code.

CFC Holdco” means any Domestic Subsidiary or Foreign Subsidiary that is a “disregarded entity” for U.S. federal income tax purposes that owns (directly or indirectly) no material assets other than cash or cash accounts and equity interests (or equity interests and indebtedness), each as determined for U.S. federal income tax purposes, of one or more (a) Foreign Subsidiaries that are CFCs or (b) subsidiaries that themselves are CFC Holdcos.

Change in Law” means (a) the adoption of any law, rule or regulation after the date of this Agreement, (b) any change in any law, rule or regulation or in the interpretation or application thereof by any Governmental Authority after the date of this Agreement or (c) compliance by any Lender or any Issuing Bank (or, for purposes of Section 2.15(b), by any lending office of such Lender or by such Lender’s or such Issuing Bank’s holding company, if any) with any request, guideline or directive (whether or not having the force of law) of any Governmental Authority made or issued after the date of this Agreement; provided that, notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act and Basel III and all requests, rules, guidelines or directives thereunder or issued in connection therewith shall be deemed to be a “Change in Law”, regardless of the date enacted, adopted, or issued.

Change of Control” means:

(a) any “Person” or “group” (as such term is used in Sections 13(d) and 14(d) of the Securities and Exchange Act of 1934 (the “Exchange Act”)), other than the Permitted Holders, is or becomes the beneficial owner (as defined in Rules 13d-3 and 13d-5 under the Exchange Act, except that a person shall be deemed to have “beneficial ownership” of all shares that any such person or group has the right to acquire, whether such right is exercisable immediately or only after the passage of time), directly or indirectly, of more than 50% of the voting stock of Holdings (for purposes of calculating the voting stock held by a group, the voting stock beneficially owned by a Permitted Holder shall be excluded to the extent such Permitted Holder is part of such group),

 

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(b) Holdings shall cease to own, directly or indirectly, one hundred percent (100%) of the outstanding Equity Interests of the Borrower, or

(c) a “change of control” (or similar event) shall occur under any other instrument governing Material Indebtedness.

Charges” has the meaning set forth in Section 9.13.

Class” means (i) when used in reference to any Loan or Borrowing, whether such Loan, or the Loans comprising such Borrowing, are Revolving Loans, Initial Term Loans, Incremental Term Loans of any series, Extended Term Loans of any series, Replacement Term Loans of any series or Swingline Loans, (ii) when used in reference to any Commitment, refers to whether such Commitment is a Revolving Commitment, an Initial Term Loan Commitment or an Incremental Commitment relating to an additional Class of Loans and (iii) when used in reference to any Lender, refers to whether such Lender has Loans, Borrowings or Commitments of a particular Class.

Clearwater” means Clearwater Analytics Holdings, Inc., a Delaware corporation.

CLO” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 9.04(b).

Closing Date” means September 28, 2021.

Closing Date Refinancing” means the repayment of all of the outstanding obligations under the Existing Credit Agreement, other than contingent indemnification obligations not yet asserted and the cash collateralization of letters of credit, cash management obligations or other similar secured obligations thereunder.

Closing Date Term Loan” has the meaning set forth in the definition of “Initial Term Loan”.

Code” means the United States Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended.

Collateral” means any and all “Collateral”, as defined in any applicable Security Document and all other property that is from time to time pledged to secure the Obligations pursuant to any Security Document.

Collateral Agent” means JPMorgan, in its capacity as collateral agent for the Secured Parties under this Agreement and any Security Document.

Collateral Agreement” means the Guarantee and Collateral Agreement among the Loan Parties and the Collateral Agent, substantially in the form of Exhibit B.

 

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Collateral and Guarantee Requirement” means the requirement that:

(a) the Collateral Agent shall have received from each Loan Party either (i) a counterpart of the Collateral Agreement duly executed and delivered on behalf of such Loan Party or (ii) in the case of any Person that becomes a Loan Party after the Closing Date, a supplement to the Collateral Agreement, in the form specified therein, duly executed and delivered on behalf of such Loan Party, subject, in each case, to the limitations and exceptions set forth in this Agreement and the Security Documents,

(b) all Obligations (other than, with respect to any Loan Party, any Excluded Swap Obligations of such Loan Party) shall have been unconditionally guaranteed by Holdings, the Borrower (other than with respect to its direct Obligations as a primary obligor), each Subsidiary Loan Party and any Foreign Guarantor (each, a “Guarantor”),

(c) the Obligations and the Guarantee shall have been secured by a perfected first-priority security interest (subject to prior Liens to the extent permitted by Section 6.02) in (i) all the Equity Interests of the Borrower and (ii) all Equity Interests of each Restricted Subsidiary directly owned by the Borrower or a Subsidiary Loan Party; provided that in the case of any such directly-owned Restricted Subsidiary that is a CFC or a CFC Holdco, such pledge shall be limited to 65% of the issued and outstanding equity interests as determined for U.S. federal income tax purposes,

(d) all documents and instruments, including Uniform Commercial Code financing statements, required by law or reasonably requested by the Collateral Agent to be filed, registered or recorded to create the Liens intended to be created by the Collateral Agreement and any Foreign Guarantee and Collateral Agreement and perfect such Liens to the extent required by the Collateral Agreement or any Foreign Guarantee and Collateral Agreement, shall have been executed, filed, registered or recorded or delivered to the Collateral Agent for filing, registration or recording, and

(e) each Loan Party shall have obtained all material consents and approvals required to be obtained by it in connection with the execution and delivery of all Security Documents to which it is a party, the performance of its obligations thereunder and the granting by it of the Liens thereunder.

Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Agreement or any Security Document, no Loan Party shall be required to pledge or grant security interests (i) in particular assets if, in the reasonable judgment of the Collateral Agent, the costs, burden or consequences (including any adverse tax consequences) of obtaining or perfecting such pledges or security interests in such assets (including any title insurance or surveys) are excessive in relation to the practical benefits to the Lenders therefrom, (ii) in any owned real property, (iii) in any leasehold interests, and (iv) with respect to any Excluded Assets.

The Collateral Agent may grant extensions of time for the perfection of security interests in particular assets and the delivery of assets (including extensions beyond the Closing Date for the perfection of security interests in the assets of the Loan Parties on such date) where it determines, in consultation with the Borrower, that perfection cannot be accomplished without undue effort or expense by the time or times at which it would otherwise be required by this Agreement or the Security Documents.

 

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Except with respect to any Foreign Guarantor or as required pursuant to any Foreign Guarantee and Collateral Agreement, no actions in any non-U.S. jurisdiction or required by the laws of any non-U.S. jurisdiction shall be required in order to create any security interests in assets located or titled outside of the U.S. or to perfect such security interests, including any intellectual property registered in any non-U.S. jurisdiction (it being understood that there shall be no security agreements or pledge agreements governed under the laws of any non-U.S. jurisdiction, other than any Foreign Guarantee and Collateral Agreement). Except as set forth in the next sentence, perfection by possession with respect to any item of Collateral shall not be required. Control agreements and perfection by control shall not be required with respect to Collateral requiring perfection through control agreements or perfection by “control” (as defined in the Uniform Commercial Code), other than in respect of certificated Equity Interests of the Borrower and wholly owned Restricted Subsidiaries that are Material Subsidiaries directly owned by the Loan Parties otherwise required to be pledged pursuant to the provisions of clause (c) of this definition of “Collateral and Guarantee Requirement” and not otherwise constituting an Excluded Asset.

Commitment” means a Revolving Commitment, an Initial Term Loan Commitment, any Commitment in respect of an Incremental Extension of Credit or any combination thereof (as the context requires).

Commodity Exchange Act” means the Commodity Exchange Act (7 U.S.C. § 1 et seq.), as amended from time to time, and any successor statute.

Communications” has the meaning assigned to it in Section 8.03(c).

Competitors” means any Person who is not an Affiliate of a Loan Party and who engages (or whose Affiliate engages) as a material business in the same or similar business as a material business of the Loan Parties.

Compliance Certificate” means a certificate substantially in the form of Exhibit F.

Consolidated EBITDA” means, for any period, Consolidated Net Income for such period, plus

(a) without duplication and to the extent deducted (and not added back or excluded) in determining such Consolidated Net Income for such period (except in the case of clause (xiv) and (xv)), the sum of: (i) consolidated interest expense of the Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries for such period determined in accordance with GAAP, (ii) consolidated income tax expense of the Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries for such period, (iii) all amounts attributable to depreciation and amortization expense of the Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries for such period, (iv) any non-cash charges for such period (but excluding (A) any non-cash charge in respect of amortization of a prepaid cash item that was included in Consolidated Net Income in a prior period and (B) any non-cash charge that relates to the write-down or write-off of inventory or accounts receivable); provided that if any non-cash charges represent an accrual or reserve for potential cash items in any future period (x) the Borrower may determine not to add back such non-cash

 

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charge in the current period or (y) to the extent the Borrower decides to add back such non-cash charge, the cash payment in respect thereof in such future period shall be subtracted from Consolidated EBITDA to such extent, (v) any net after-tax gains or losses realized upon the disposition of assets outside the ordinary course of business (including any gain or loss realized upon the disposition of any Equity Interests of any Person) and any net gains or losses on disposed, abandoned and discontinued operations (including in connection with any disposal thereof) and any accretion or accrual of discounted liabilities, (vi) any non-recurring out-of-pocket expenses or charges for the period (including, without limitation, any premiums, make-whole or penalty payments) relating to any offering of Equity Interests by the Borrower or any other direct or indirect parent company of the Borrower (other than any such offering the proceeds of which are utilized to effectuate a Cure Right) or merger, recapitalization or acquisition transactions made by the Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries, or any Indebtedness incurred or repaid by the Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries (in each case, whether or not successful), (vii) any Transaction Expenses made or incurred by the Borrower and its subsidiaries in connection with the Transactions that are paid or accrued within 180 days of the consummation of the Transactions (provided that any retention or severance payments paid to employees in connection with the Transactions may be paid or accrued within 12 months of the consummation of the Transactions) together with any tax expense incurred in connection with the Transactions, (viii) other cash expenses incurred during such period in connection with a Permitted Acquisition to the extent that such expenses are reimbursed in cash during such period pursuant to indemnification provisions of any agreement relating to such transaction, (ix) the amount of management, monitoring, consulting, transaction and advisory fees and related indemnities and expenses paid or accrued during such period to a Permitted Investor to the extent permitted to be paid or accrued under Section 6.09(h), (x) any non-cash costs or expenses incurred pursuant to any management equity plan, stock option plan or any other management or employee benefit plan or agreement or any stock subscription or shareholder agreement, (xi) fees, costs and expenses paid or incurred by the Borrower in connection with the making of the Permitted Distributions, (xii) earn-out and contingent consideration obligations (including to the extent accounted for as bonuses, compensation or otherwise) and adjustments thereof and purchase price adjustments, in each case in connection with any acquisitions, (xiii) any costs, charges, accruals, reserves or expenses attributable to the undertaking and/or implementation of cost savings initiatives and operating expense reductions, restructuring and similar charges, severance, relocation costs, integration and facilities opening costs and other business optimization expenses, signing costs, retention or completion bonuses, transition costs, costs related to closure/consolidation of facilities and curtailments or modifications to pension and post-retirement employee benefit plans (including any settlement of pension liabilities); provided that the aggregate amount of synergies added back are (a) reasonably identifiable and certified by a Financial Officer or (b) funded or reimbursed in cash by any governmental aid, relief payments, grants, loans (to the extent eligible for forgiveness) or similar payments from any Governmental Authority (including, without limitation, the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act) and, in each case, such governmental aid, relief payments, grants, loans or similar payments are not included in the calculation of Consolidated Net Income or Consolidated EBITDA, (xiv) pro forma “run rate” cost savings, operating expense reductions and synergies related to the Transactions that are

 

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reasonably identifiable and projected by the Borrower in good faith to result from actions that have been taken or with respect to which substantial steps have been taken or are expected to be taken (in the good faith determination of the Borrower) within 24 months after the Closing Date, (xv) pro forma “run rate” cost savings, operating expense reductions and synergies (including post-acquisition price or administration fee increases) related to acquisitions, dispositions and other specified transactions following the Closing Date, restructurings, cost savings initiatives and other initiatives that are reasonably identifiable and projected by the Borrower in good faith to from actions that have been taken or with respect to which substantial steps have been taken or are expected to be taken (in the good faith determination of the Borrower) within 24 months after such acquisition, disposition or other specified transaction, restructuring, cost savings initiative or other initiative, (xvi) (A) fees, costs and expenses paid or incurred by the Borrower in connection with the Tax Receivable Agreement and (B) disbursements made by the Borrower under the Tax Receivable Agreement, (xvii) any net unrealized gain or loss (after any offset) resulting from currency transaction or translation gains or losses and any net gains or losses related to currency remeasurements of Indebtedness (including intercompany indebtedness and foreign currency hedges for currency exchange risk), (xviii) cash expenses incurred during such period in connection with extraordinary casualty events to the extent such expenses are reimbursed in cash by insurance during such period, (xix) any extraordinary, unusual or non-recurring charges, expenses or losses and (xx) Public Company Costs of Clearwater; provided that the aggregate amount of synergies added back pursuant to clauses (xiii), (xiv) and (xv) (other than to the extent added back in accordance with Regulation S-X or pursuant to clause (xiii)(b)) shall not exceed, for any Test Period, 35% of Consolidated EBITDA (after giving effect to such addbacks), minus

(b) without duplication, other non-cash items (other than the accrual of revenue in accordance with GAAP consistently applied in the ordinary course of business) increasing Consolidated Net Income for the period (excluding any such non-cash item to the extent it represents the reversal of an accrual or reserve for potential cash item in any prior period),

(c) without duplication, plus unrealized losses and minus unrealized gains in each case in respect of Swap Agreements, as determined in accordance with GAAP, and

(d) minus amounts distributed by Borrower or its Subsidiaries to Holdings pursuant to Sections 6.08(a)(iv) and 6.08(a)(xi) during such period.

Notwithstanding the foregoing, (a) with respect to any Subsidiary which is consolidated for purposes of GAAP, Consolidated EBITDA shall include 100% of such Person’s Consolidated EBITDA calculated as set forth above with respect to such Person, (b) with respect to any other Person accounted for by the equity method of accounting, Consolidated EBITDA shall include the Borrower’s pro rata share of net income of such Person and (c) Consolidated EBITDA for the fiscal quarters ended September 30, 2020, December 31, 2020, March 31, 2021 and June 30, 2021, shall be $20,157,725, $16,297,406, $18,479,263 and $17,741,832, respectively.

 

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For the avoidance of doubt, Consolidated EBITDA shall be calculated (i) including pro forma adjustments, in accordance with Section 1.07 with respect to events occurring following the Closing Date and (ii) with respect any Test Period that includes any of the fiscal quarters ended September 30, 2020, December 31, 2020, March 31, 2021 and June 30, 2021, based on the amounts specified in clause (c) of the immediately preceding sentence.

Consolidated First Lien Net Indebtedness” means, as of any date of determination, (a) the principal amount of Indebtedness described in clause (a) of the definition of “Consolidated Total Net Indebtedness” outstanding on such date that is secured by a Lien on Collateral of the Loan Parties on a pari passu or senior basis to the Obligations (excluding any Indebtedness to the extent subordinated in right of payment to the Obligations) minus (b) unrestricted cash, other cash restricted in favor of the Administrative Agent and Permitted Investments of the Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries, in each case, included on the consolidated balance sheet of the Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries as of such date.

Consolidated Net Income” means, for any period, the net income or loss of the Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries for such period determined on a consolidated basis in accordance with GAAP and before any reduction in respect of preferred stock dividends; provided that there shall be excluded from Consolidated Net Income (a) the cumulative effect of a change in accounting principles during such period to the extent included in Consolidated Net Income, (b) any gains or losses (less all fees, expenses and charges relating thereto) attributable to any sale of assets outside the ordinary course of business, the disposition of any Equity Interests of any Person or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries, or the extinguishment of any Indebtedness of such Person or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries, in each case, other than in the ordinary course of business, (c) any extraordinary, unusual or non-recurring gain or loss, together with any related provision for taxes on such extraordinary, unusual or non-recurring gain or loss for such period, (d) income or losses attributable to discontinued operations (including, without limitation, operations disposed during such period whether or not such operations were classified as discontinued), (e) any non-cash charges (i) attributable to applying the purchase method of accounting in accordance with GAAP, (ii) resulting from the application of ASC Topic 350 or ASC Topic 360, and (iii) relating to the amortization of intangibles resulting from the application of ASC Topic 805, (f) all non-cash charges relating to employee benefit or other management or stock compensation plans of the Borrower or a Restricted Subsidiary (excluding any such non-cash charge to the extent that it represents an accrual of or reserve for cash expenses in any future period or amortization of a prepaid cash expense incurred in a prior period) to the extent that such non-cash charges are deducted in computing Consolidated Net Income; provided, that if the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary of the Borrower makes a cash payment in respect of such non-cash charge in any period, such cash payment will (without duplication) be deducted from the Consolidated Net Income of the Borrower for such period, (g) all unrealized gains and losses relating to hedging transactions and mark-to-market of Indebtedness denominated in foreign currencies resulting from the application of ASC Topic 830 and (h) any unrealized foreign currency translation gains or losses, including in respect of Indebtedness of any Person denominated in a currency other than the functional currency of such Person. Notwithstanding the foregoing, for purposes of calculating the “Available Amount”, Consolidated Net Income of any Restricted Subsidiary of the Borrower will be excluded to the extent that the declaration or payment of dividends or other distributions by that Restricted Subsidiary of that net income is not at the date of determination permitted by a Requirement of Law (that has not been obtained) or, directly or indirectly, by operation of the terms of its charter or any agreement, instrument, judgment, decree, order, statute, rule or governmental regulation applicable to that Restricted Subsidiary or its stockholders; provided that Consolidated Net Income of the Borrower shall be increased by the amount of dividends or distributions that are actually paid in cash or Permitted Investments to (or to the extent subsequently converted into cash or Permitted Investments by) the Borrower or a Restricted Subsidiary (subject to provisions of this sentence) during such period, to the extent not previously included therein.

 

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Consolidated Secured Net Indebtedness” means, as of any date of determination, (a) the principal amount of Indebtedness described in clause (a) of the definition of “Consolidated Total Net Indebtedness” outstanding on such date that is secured by a Lien on any assets of the Loan Parties minus (b) unrestricted cash and Permitted Investments of the Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries, in each case, included on the consolidated balance sheet of the Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries as of such date.

Consolidated Total Net Indebtedness” means, as of any date of determination, (a) the aggregate principal amount of Indebtedness of the Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries outstanding on such date consisting of Indebtedness for borrowed money, Attributable Indebtedness, purchase money debt, unreimbursed amounts under letters of credit (subject to the proviso below), obligations represented by promissory notes and all Guarantees of the foregoing, in each case (except in the case of Guarantees) in an amount that would be reflected on a balance sheet prepared as of such date on a consolidated basis in accordance with GAAP (but excluding the effects of any discounting of Indebtedness resulting from the application of acquisition accounting in connection with the Transactions or any acquisition constituting an Investment permitted under this Agreement) minus (b) unrestricted cash and Permitted Investments of the Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries included on the consolidated balance sheet of the Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries as of such date; provided that Consolidated Total Net Indebtedness shall not include Indebtedness in respect of (i) letters of credit, except to the extent of unreimbursed amounts under commercial letters of credit that are not reimbursed within three (3) Business Days after such amount is drawn and (ii) Unrestricted Subsidiaries. For the avoidance of doubt, obligations under Swap Agreements permitted by Section 6.01(x) do not constitute Consolidated Total Net Indebtedness.

Control” means the possession, directly or indirectly, of the power to direct or cause the direction of the management or policies of a Person, whether through the ability to exercise voting power, by contract or otherwise. “Controlling” and “Controlled” have meanings correlative thereto.

Corresponding Tenor” with respect to any Available Tenor means, as applicable, either a tenor (including overnight) or an interest payment period having approximately the same length (disregarding business day adjustment) as such Available Tenor.

Covered Entity” means any of the following:

(a) a “covered entity” as that term is defined in, and interpreted in accordance with, 12 C.F.R. § 252.82(b);

(b) a “covered bank” as that term is defined in, and interpreted in accordance with, 12 C.F.R. § 47.3(b); or

 

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(c) a “covered FSI” as that term is defined in, and interpreted in accordance with, 12 C.F.R. § 382.2(b).

Covered Party” has the meaning assigned to it in Section 9.22.

Credit Party” means the Administrative Agent, the Revolver Agent, the Collateral Agent, each Issuing Bank, the Swingline Lender or any other Lender.

Cure Amount” has the meaning specified in Section 7.02(a).

Cure Right” has the meaning specified in Section 7.02(a).

CWAN” means CWAN Holdings LLC, a Delaware limited liability company.

Daily Simple SOFR” means, for any day, SOFR, with the conventions for this rate (which may include a lookback) being established by the Administrative Agent in accordance with the conventions for this rate selected or recommended by the Relevant Governmental Body for determining “Daily Simple SOFR” for business loans; provided, that if the Administrative Agent decides that any such convention is not administratively feasible for the Administrative Agent, then the Administrative Agent may establish another convention in its reasonable discretion.

Debt Fund Affiliate” means any Affiliate of the Borrower that is a bona fide debt fund or an investment vehicle that is engaged in or advises funds or other investment vehicles that are engaged in, making, purchasing, holding or otherwise investing in commercial loans, bonds and similar extensions of credit or securities in the ordinary course and with respect to which any Permitted Investor does not, directly or indirectly, possess the power to direct or cause the direction of the investment policies of such Affiliate.

Declined Proceeds” has the meaning specified in Section 2.11(g).

Default” means any event or condition that constitutes an Event of Default or which upon notice, lapse of time or both would, unless cured or waived, become an Event of Default.

Default Right” has the meaning assigned to that term in, and shall be interpreted in accordance with, 12 C.F.R. §§ 252.81, 47.2 or 382.1, as applicable.

Defaulting Lender” means any Revolving Lender that (a) has failed, within three (3) Business Days of the date required to be funded or paid, to (i) fund any portion of its Revolving Loans, (ii) fund any portion of its participations in Letters of Credit or Swingline Loans or (iii) pay over to the Administrative Agent, Revolver Agent, any Issuing Bank, the Swingline Lender or any other Lender any other amount required to be paid by it hereunder, unless, in the case of clause (i) above, such Revolving Lender notifies the Administrative Agent and Revolver Agent in writing that such failure is the result of such Revolving Lender’s good faith determination that a condition precedent to funding (specifically identified and including the particular default, if any) has not been satisfied, (b) has notified the Borrower, the Administrative Agent, the Revolver Agent, any Issuing Bank, the Swingline Lender or any other Lender in writing, or has made a public statement to the effect, that it does not intend or expect to comply with (i) any of its funding obligations under this Agreement (unless such writing or public statement indicates that such position is based

 

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on such Revolving Lender’s good faith determination that a condition precedent (specifically identified and including the particular default, if any) to funding a loan under this Agreement cannot be satisfied) or (ii) its funding obligations generally under other agreements in which it commits to extend credit, (c) has failed, within three (3) Business Days after written request by the Administrative Agent or the Revolver Agent, acting in good faith, to provide a certification in writing from an authorized officer of such Revolving Lender that it will comply with its obligations (and is financially able to meet such obligations) to fund prospective Revolving Loans and participations in then outstanding Letters of Credit and Swingline Loans under this Agreement; provided that such Revolving Lender shall cease to be a Defaulting Lender pursuant to this clause (c) upon such Loan Party’s receipt of such certification in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to it, the Administrative Agent and the Revolver Agent, (d) has become the subject of a Bankruptcy Event, or (e) has failed at any time to comply with the provisions of Section 2.18(c) with respect to purchasing participations from the other Lenders, whereby such Lender’s share of any payment received, whether by setoff or otherwise, is in excess of its pro rata share of such payments due and payable to all of the Lenders.

Disqualified Institutions” means (a) the Persons identified in writing as such by the Borrower to the Administrative Agent prior to the Closing Date, (b) any Competitors of the Borrower and their Subsidiaries (other than any person that is a bona fide debt fund or investment fund that is engaged in making, purchasing, holding or otherwise investing in commercial loans or similar extensions of credit in the ordinary course of business) that (i) are identified in the list of Disqualified Institutions pursuant to clause (a) hereof and (ii) on or after the Closing Date, have been specified in writing by the Borrower to the Administrative Agent from time to time in the form of an update to the list of Disqualified Institutions and (c) Affiliates of such Persons set forth in clauses (a) and (b) above (in the case of Affiliates of such Persons set forth in clause (b) above other than any person that is a bona fide debt fund or investment fund that is engaged in making, purchasing, holding or otherwise investing in commercial loans or similar extensions of credit in the ordinary course of business) that (i)(A) are identified in the list of Disqualified Institutions pursuant to clause (a) hereof and (B) on or after the Closing Date, have been specified in writing by the Borrower to the Administrative Agent from time to time in the form of an update to the list of Disqualified Institutions or (ii) are clearly identifiable as an Affiliate of such Persons on the basis of such Affiliate’s name; provided, that, until the disclosure of the identity of a Disqualified Institution or Affiliate of a Disqualified Institution to the Lenders generally by the Administrative Agent, such Person shall not constitute a Disqualified Institution; provided, further that, to the extent Persons are identified as Disqualified Institutions in writing by the Borrower to the Administrative Agent after the Closing Date pursuant to clauses (b)(ii) or (c)(i)(B), the inclusion of such Persons as Disqualified Institutions shall not retroactively apply to prior assignments or participations in respect of any Loan under this Agreement. Any updates, modifications or supplements to the list of Disqualified Institutions must be delivered by e-mail to JPMDQ_Contact@jpmorgan.com and shall become effective three (3) Business Days after such delivery. The identity of Disqualified Institutions may be communicated (i) by the Administrative Agent to a Lender upon request and (ii) by any Lender to any prospective Lender, Participant or assignee, subject to the acknowledgment and acceptance by such prospective Lender, Participant or assignee that the identity of Disqualified Institutions is being disseminated on a confidential basis and that such prospective Lender, Participant or assignee shall be bound by the same confidentiality restrictions as those applicable to the Lender making such communication, but will not be otherwise posted or distributed to any Person. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Borrower,

 

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by written notice to the Administrative Agent, may from time to time in its sole discretion remove any entity from the list of Disqualified Institutions (or otherwise modify such list to exclude any particular entity), and such entity removed or excluded from the list of Disqualified Institutions shall no longer be a Disqualified Institution for any purpose under this Agreement or any other Loan Document.

Disqualified Stock” means any Equity Interest that, by its terms (or by the terms of any security or other Equity Interests into which it is convertible or for which it is exchangeable), or upon the happening of any event or condition (a) matures or is mandatorily redeemable (other than solely for Qualified Preferred Stock), pursuant to a sinking fund obligation or otherwise (except as a result of a change of control or asset sale so long as any rights of the holders thereof upon the occurrence of a change of control or asset sale event shall be subject to the prior repayment in full of the Loans and all other Obligations (other than (i) contingent indemnification obligations as to which no claim has been asserted and (ii) obligations under treasury services agreements or obligations under secured hedge agreements not then due and payable) that are accrued and payable and the termination of the Commitments and the termination of all outstanding Letters of Credit (unless the outstanding amount of the LC Exposure related thereto has been cash collateralized, back-stopped by a letter of credit in form and substance, and issued by a letter of credit issuer, reasonably satisfactory to the applicable Issuing Bank and in a face amount equal to 103% of the outstanding amount of the applicable LC Exposure in respect thereof), or deemed reissued under another agreement reasonably acceptable to the applicable Issuing Bank), (b) is redeemable at the option of the holder thereof (other than solely for Qualified Preferred Stock and other than as a result of a change of control or asset sale so long as any rights of the holders thereof upon the occurrence of a change of control or asset sale event shall be subject to the prior repayment in full of the Loans and all other Obligations (other than (i) contingent indemnification obligations as to which no claim has been asserted and (ii) obligations under treasury services agreements or obligations under secured hedge agreements not then due and payable) that are accrued and payable and the termination of the Commitments and the termination of all outstanding Letters of Credit (unless the outstanding amount of the LC Exposure related thereto has been cash collateralized, back-stopped by a letter of credit in form and substance, and issued by a letter of credit issuer, reasonably satisfactory to the applicable Issuing Bank and in a face amount equal to 103% of the outstanding amount of the applicable LC Exposure in respect thereof, or deemed reissued under another agreement reasonably acceptable to the applicable Issuing Bank)), in whole or in part, (c) provides for the scheduled payments of dividends in cash, or (d) is or becomes convertible into or exchangeable for Indebtedness or any other Equity Interests that would constitute Disqualified Stock, in each case, prior to the date that is 91 days after the Latest Maturity Date at the time of issuance of such Equity Interests; provided, that if such Equity Interests are issued pursuant to a plan for the benefit of future, current or former employees, directors, officers, members of management or consultants of Holdings (or a parent), the Borrower or the Restricted Subsidiaries or by any such plan to such employees, directors, officers, members of management or consultants, such Equity Interests shall not constitute Disqualified Stock solely because they may be permitted to be repurchased by Holdings, the Borrower or its Restricted Subsidiaries in order to satisfy applicable statutory or regulatory obligations or as a result of such employee’s, director’s, officer’s, management member’s or consultant’s termination of employment or service, as applicable, death or disability.

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Domestic Subsidiary” means any Subsidiary incorporated or organized under the laws of the United States of America, any State thereof or the District of Columbia.

Early Opt-in Election means, if the then-current Benchmark is LIBO Rate, the occurrence of:

 

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a notification by the Administrative Agent, the issuance of which shall be reasonably agreed to in advance by the Borrower, to (or the request by the Borrower to the Administrative Agent to notify) each of the other parties hereto that at least five currently outstanding dollar-denominated syndicated credit facilities at such time contain (as a result of amendment or as originally executed) a SOFR-based rate (including SOFR, a term SOFR or any other rate based upon SOFR) as a benchmark rate (and such syndicated credit facilities are identified in such notice and are publicly available for review), and

 

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the joint election by the Administrative Agent and the Borrower to trigger a fallback from LIBO Rate and the provision by the Administrative Agent of written notice of such election to the Lenders.

EEA Financial Institution” means (a) any credit institution or investment firm established in any EEA Member Country which is subject to the supervision of an EEA Resolution Authority, (b) any entity established in an EEA Member Country which is a parent of an institution described in clause (a) of this definition, or (c) any financial institution established in an EEA Member Country which is a subsidiary of an institution described in clauses (a) or (b) of this definition and is subject to consolidated supervision with its parent.

EEA Member Country” means any of the member states of the European Union, Iceland, Liechtenstein, and Norway.

EEA Resolution Authority” means any public administrative authority or any Person entrusted with public administrative authority of any EEA Member Country (including any delegee) having responsibility for the resolution of any EEA Financial Institution.

Elective Guarantor” has the meaning assigned to it in Section 5.12(a).

Electronic Signature” means an electronic sound, symbol, or process attached to, or associated with, a contract or other record and adopted by a Person with the intent to sign, authenticate or accept such contract or record.

Environment” means ambient air, indoor air, surface water, groundwater, drinking water, land surface, sediments, and subsurface strata & natural resources such as wetlands, flora and fauna.

Environmental Laws” means all laws (including the common law), rules, regulations, codes, ordinances, orders, decrees, judgments, injunctions, notices or binding agreements issued, promulgated or entered into by or with any Governmental Authority, relating in any way to the Environment, the preservation or reclamation of or damage to natural resources, the presence, management, storage, treatment, transports, exposure to, Release or threatened Release of any Hazardous Material, or to health and safety matters.

 

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Environmental Liability” means liabilities, obligations, damages, claims, actions, suits, judgments, orders, fines, penalties, fees, expenses and costs (including administrative oversight costs, natural resource damages and medical monitoring, investigation or remediation costs), whether contingent or otherwise, arising out of or relating to (a) compliance or non-compliance with any Environmental Law, (b) the generation, use, handling, transportation, storage or treatment of any Hazardous Materials, (c) exposure to any Hazardous Materials, (d) the Release or threatened Release of any Hazardous Materials or (e) any contract, agreement or other consensual arrangement pursuant to which liability is assumed or imposed with respect to any of the foregoing.

Equity Interests” means shares of capital stock, partnership interests, membership interests in a limited liability company, beneficial interests in a trust or other equity ownership interests in a Person, and any warrants, options or other rights entitling the holder thereof to purchase or acquire any such equity interest from the issuer thereof (but excluding any debt security that is convertible into, or exchangeable for, any of the foregoing).

ERISA” means the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 and the regulations promulgated thereunder, as amended from time to time.

ERISA Affiliate” means any trade or business (whether or not incorporated) that, together with the Borrower, is treated as a single employer under Section 414(b) or (c) of the Code, and including Section 414(m) and (o) of the Code solely for purposes of Section 412 of the Code and Section 302 of ERISA.

ERISA Event” means (a) any “reportable event”, as defined in Section 4043 of ERISA or the regulations issued thereunder, with respect to a Plan (other than an event for which the 30 day notice period is waived), (b) a failure to satisfy the minimum funding standard under Section 412 of the Code or Section 302 of ERISA, whether or not waived, (c) the filing pursuant to Section 412(c) of the Code or Section 302(c) of ERISA of an application for a waiver of the minimum funding standard with respect to any Plan or Multiemployer Plan, (d) the incurrence by the Borrower or any of its ERISA Affiliates of any liability under Title IV of ERISA with respect to the termination of any Plan, (e) the receipt by the Borrower or any ERISA Affiliate from the PBGC or a plan administrator of any written notice relating to an intention to terminate any Plan or Multiemployer Plan or to appoint a trustee to administer any Plan or Multiemployer Plan, (f) the receipt by the Borrower or any ERISA Affiliate of any written notice relating to the incurrence by the Borrower or any of its ERISA Affiliates of any liability with respect to the withdrawal or partial withdrawal from any Plan or Multiemployer Plan, (g) the withdrawal of the Borrower or any of its ERISA Affiliates from a Plan subject to Section 4063 of ERISA during a plan year in which such entity was a “substantial employer” (as defined in Section 4001(a)(2) of ERISA) or a cessation of operations that is treated as such a withdrawal under Section 4062(e) of ERISA, (h) the receipt by the Borrower or any ERISA Affiliate of any written notice, or the receipt by any Multiemployer Plan from the Borrower or any ERISA Affiliate of any written notice, concerning a determination that a Multiemployer Plan is, or is expected to be insolvent within the meaning of Title IV of ERISA or that a Multiemployer Plan is in “endangered” or “critical” status (within the meaning of Section 432 of the Code or Section 305 of ERISA), (i) the receipt by the Borrower or any ERISA Affiliate of any written notice concerning a determination that a Plan is, or is expected to be, in “at risk” status (within the meaning of Section 430 of the Code or Section 303 of ERISA) or (j) the occurrence of a non-exempt prohibited transaction (within the meaning of Section 406 of ERISA or Section 4975 of the Code) with respect to any Plan.

 

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EU Bail-In Legislation Schedule” means the EU Bail-In Legislation Schedule published by the Loan Market Association (or any successor person), as in effect from time to time.

Eurodollar”, when used in reference to any Loan or Borrowing, refers to whether such Loan, or the Loans comprising such Borrowing, are bearing interest at a rate determined by reference to the Adjusted LIBO Rate.

Event of Default” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 7.01.

Excluded Assets” has the meaning assigned to such term in the Collateral Agreement.

Excluded Domestic Subsidiary” means any Domestic Subsidiary that is (i) a direct or indirect Subsidiary of a Subsidiary of the Borrower that is a CFC or (ii) a CFC Holdco.

Excluded Subsidiary” means (i) any Subsidiary to the extent (and for so long as) a Guarantee by such Subsidiary would be prohibited or restricted by applicable law or by any restriction in any contract existing on the Closing Date or, so long as any such restriction in any contract is not entered into in contemplation of such Subsidiary becoming a Subsidiary, at the time such Subsidiary becomes a Subsidiary (including any requirement to obtain the consent of any Governmental Authority or third party), (ii) Excluded Domestic Subsidiaries, (iii) any Subsidiary that is a CFC or a CFC Holdco, (iv) Unrestricted Subsidiaries, (v) Captive Insurance Subsidiaries, (vi) not-for-profit Subsidiaries, (vii) special purpose entities reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent, (viii) any Subsidiary that is not a Material Subsidiary and (ix) any subsidiary where the Administrative Agent and the Borrower agree that the cost (including any adverse tax consequences) of obtaining a Guarantee by such Subsidiary would be excessive in light of the practical benefit to the Lenders afforded thereby.

Excluded Swap Obligation” means, with respect to any Loan Party, any Swap Obligation if, and to the extent that, all or a portion of the Guarantee of such Loan Party of, or the grant by such Loan Party of a security interest to secure, such Swap Obligation (or any Guarantee thereof) is or becomes illegal under the Commodity Exchange Act or any rule, regulation or order of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (or the application or official interpretation of any thereof) by virtue of such Loan Party’s failure for any reason to constitute an “eligible contract participant” as defined in the Commodity Exchange Act and the regulations thereunder (determined after giving effect to any keepwell, support or other agreement for the benefit of such Loan Party and any and all guarantees of such Loan Party’s Swap Obligations by other Loan Parties) at the time the Guarantee of such Loan Party or the grant of such security interest becomes effective with respect to such Swap Obligation but for such Loan Party’s failure to constitute an “eligible contract participant” at such time. If a Swap Obligation arises under a master agreement governing more than one swap, such exclusion shall apply only to the portion of such Swap Obligation that is attributable to swaps for which such Guarantee or security interest is or becomes illegal in accordance with the first sentence of this definition.

 

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Excluded Taxes” means, with respect to the Administrative Agent, Revolver Agent, any Lender, any Issuing Bank or any other recipient of any payment to be made by or on account of any obligation of the Borrower or any Loan Party hereunder, (a) Taxes imposed on (or measured by) its net income (however denominated) (including any backup withholding with respect thereto) and franchise Taxes imposed on it (in lieu of net income Taxes), in each case as a result of (i) such recipient being organized under the laws of, or having its principal office or, in the case of any Lender, its applicable lending office, located in the jurisdiction imposing such Tax, or (ii)such recipient being subject to Other Connection Taxes, (b) any branch profits Taxes, or any similar Tax, imposed by any jurisdiction described in clause (a) above, (c) in the case of a Lender, any U.S. federal withholding Taxes that are (or would be) required to be withheld from amounts payable to or for the account of such Lender pursuant to a law in effect on the date on which (i) such Lender acquires such interest in the Commitment (or, to the extent a Lender acquires an interest in a Term Loan without acquiring an interest in the corresponding Commitment, the Term Loan) (in each case other than pursuant to an assignment request by the Borrower under Section 2.19(b)), or (ii) such Lender changes its lending office, except in each case to the extent that, pursuant to Section 2.17(a), amounts with respect to such Taxes were payable either to such Lender’s assignor immediately before such Lender became a party hereto or to such Lender immediately before it changed its lending office, (d) any withholding Tax that is attributable to a Lender’s failure to comply with Section 2.17(e) or withholding Tax that is attributable to an Applicable Agent’s failure to comply with Section 2.17(f), and (e) any withholding Taxes imposed under FATCA.

Existing Credit Agreement” means that certain Credit Agreement, dated as of September 1, 2016, by and among the Borrower, Holdings, the other guarantors party thereto from time to time, Ares Capital Corporation, as administrative agent and issuing lender, and each of the financial institutions party thereto as lenders (as such has been amended, restated, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time).

Existing Term Loan Class” has the meaning set forth in Section 2.21(a).

Extended Revolving Commitments” means revolving credit commitments established pursuant to Section 2.21 that are substantially identical to the Revolving Commitments except that such extended revolving commitments may have a later maturity date and different provisions with respect to interest rates and fees than those applicable to the Revolving Commitments.

Extended Term Loans” has the meaning set forth in Section 2.21(a).

Extending Term Lender” has the meaning set forth in Section 2.21(c).

Extension Election” has the meaning set forth in Section 2.21(c).

Extension Request” has the meaning set forth in Section 2.21(a).

Facility” means a given Class of Term Loans or Revolving Commitments, as the context may require.

Fair Market Value” means the value that would be paid by a willing buyer to an unaffiliated willing seller in a transaction not involving distress or necessity of either party, determined in good faith by the Board of Directors, chief executive officer or chief financial officer of the Borrower.

 

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FATCA” means Sections 1471 through 1474 of the Code as of the date hereof (and any amended or successor version that is substantively comparable and not materially more onerous to comply with), any current or future regulations or official interpretations thereof, any agreements entered into pursuant to Section 1471(b)(1) of the current Code (or any amended or successor version described above) and any applicable law or regulation pursuant to an intergovernmental agreement, treaty or convention among Governmental Authorities entered into to implement the foregoing (together with any law implementing such agreement and any U.S. or non-U.S. regulations or official guidance).

FCA” has the meaning set forth in Section 1.08.

FCPA” means the United States Foreign Corrupt Practices Act of 1977, as amended.

Federal Funds Effective Rate” means, for any day, the rate calculated by the NYFRB based on such day’s federal funds transactions by depositary institutions, as determined in such manner as shall be set forth on the NYFRB’s Website from time to time, and published on the next succeeding Business Day by the NYFRB as the effective federal funds rate.

Fee Letter” means the Fee Letter, dated as of the date hereof, by and among the Administrative Agent and the Borrower.

Financial Covenant” means the covenant of the Borrower set forth in Section 6.12.

Financial Covenant Default” has the meaning specified in Section 7.02.

Financial Officer” means the chief financial officer, principal accounting officer, treasurer or controller of the Borrower, in each case in his or her capacity as such.

First Lien Incremental Test Ratio” has the meaning set forth in Section 2.20(a).

First Lien Net Leverage Ratio” means, with respect to any Test Period, the ratio of (a) Consolidated First Lien Net Indebtedness as of the last day of such Test Period to (b) Consolidated EBITDA for such Test Period.

Floor” means the benchmark rate floor, if any, provided in this Agreement initially (as of the execution of this Agreement, the modification, amendment or renewal of this Agreement or otherwise) with respect to LIBO Rate.

Foreign Casualty Event” has the meaning specified in Section 2.11(h).

Foreign Disposition” has the meaning specified in Section 2.11(h).

Foreign Guarantee and Collateral Documents” means any guarantee, security document or pledge agreement delivered in accordance with applicable local or foreign law to cause a Foreign Guarantor to Guarantee the Obligations and/or grant a valid, perfected security interest in any property as Collateral for the Obligations, which Foreign Guarantee and Collateral Documents shall be in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent.

 

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Foreign Guarantor” means each Elective Guarantor that is a Foreign Subsidiary.

Foreign Lender” means any Lender that is not a United States person within the meaning of Section 7701(a)(30) of the Code.

Foreign Subsidiary” means any Subsidiary that is not a Domestic Subsidiary.

GAAP” means generally accepted accounting principles in the United States of America, including those set forth in the opinions and pronouncements of the Accounting Principles Board of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and statements and pronouncements of the Financial Accounting Standards Board or in such other statements by such other entity as have been approved by a significant segment of the accounting profession, which are in effect from time to time. If at any time the SEC permits or requires domestic companies subject to the reporting requirements of the Securities Exchange Act to use IFRS in lieu of GAAP for financial reporting purposes, the Borrower may elect by written notice to the Administrative Agent to so use IFRS in lieu of GAAP and, upon any such notice, references herein to GAAP shall thereafter be construed to mean (a) for periods beginning on and after the date specified in such notice, IFRS as in effect on the date specified in such notice and as in effect from time to time (for all other purposes of this Agreement) and (b) for prior periods, GAAP as defined in the first sentence of this definition. Notwithstanding any change to IFRS, all ratios and computations contained in this Agreement shall be computed in conformity with GAAP.

Governmental Authority” means the government of the United States of America, any other nation or any political subdivision thereof, whether state or local, and any agency, authority, instrumentality, regulatory body, court, central bank or other entity exercising executive, legislative, judicial, taxing, regulatory or administrative powers or functions of or pertaining to government.

Guarantee” of or by any Person (the “guarantor”) means any obligation, contingent or otherwise, of the guarantor guaranteeing or having the economic effect of guaranteeing any Indebtedness or other obligation of any other Person (the “primary obligor”) in any manner, whether directly or indirectly, and including any obligation of the guarantor, direct or indirect, (a) to purchase or pay (or advance or supply funds for the purchase or payment of) such Indebtedness or other obligation or to purchase (or to advance or supply funds for the purchase of) any security for the payment thereof, (b) to purchase or lease property, securities or services for the purpose of assuring the owner of such Indebtedness or other obligation of the payment thereof, (c) to maintain working capital, equity capital or any other financial statement condition or liquidity of the primary obligor so as to enable the primary obligor to pay such Indebtedness or other obligation or (d) as an account party or applicant in respect of any letter of credit or letter of guaranty issued to support such Indebtedness or obligation; provided that the term “Guarantee” shall not include endorsements for collection or deposit in the ordinary course of business. The amount of any Guarantee of any guaranteeing person shall be deemed to be the lower of (a) an amount equal to the stated or determinable amount of the primary obligation in respect of which the Guarantee is made and (b) the maximum amount for which such guaranteeing person may be liable pursuant to the terms of the instrument embodying such Guarantee.

 

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Guarantor” has the meaning set forth in the definition of “Collateral and Guarantee Requirement” and shall include each Subsidiary Loan Party that shall have become a Guarantor pursuant to Section 5.12(a).

Hazardous Materials” means all explosive, radioactive, infectious, chemical, biological, medical, hazardous or toxic materials, substances, wastes or other pollutants or contaminants, including petroleum or petroleum byproducts, asbestos or asbestos-containing materials, polychlorinated biphenyls, radon gas and all other materials, substances or wastes of any nature regulated pursuant to any Environmental Law.

Holdings” has the meaning set forth in the recitals hereto and shall include any Succeeding Holdings.

IFRS” means International Financial Reporting Standards and applicable accounting requirements set by the International Accounting Standards Board or any successor thereto (or the Financial Accounting Standards Board, the Accounting Principles Board of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, or any successor to either such board, or the SEC, as the case may be), as in effect from time to time.

IBA” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 1.08.

Impacted Interest Period” has the meaning set forth in the definition of “LIBO Rate.”

Incremental Amendment Date” has the meaning set forth in Section 2.20(d).

Incremental Commitments” has the meaning set forth in Section 2.20(a).

Incremental Extensions of Credit” has the meaning set forth in Section 2.20(b).

Incremental Facilities” has the meaning set forth in Section 2.20(a).

Incremental Facility Closing Date” has the meaning set forth in Section 2.20(b).

Incremental Lenders” has the meaning set forth in Section 2.20(c).

Incremental Loan Request” has the meaning set forth in Section 2.20(a).

Incremental Revolving Commitments” has the meaning set forth in Section 2.20(a).

Incremental Revolving Lender” has the meaning set forth in Section 2.20(c).

Incremental Revolving Loan” has the meaning set forth in Section 2.20(b).

Incremental Term Commitments” has the meaning set forth in Section 2.20(a).

Incremental Term Lender” has the meaning set forth in Section 2.20(c).

 

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Incremental Term Loan” has the meaning set forth in Section 2.20(b).

Incremental Test Ratios” has the meaning set forth in Section 2.20(a).

Indebtedness” of any Person means, without duplication, (a) all obligations of such Person for borrowed money or with respect to deposits or advances of any kind, (b) all obligations of such Person evidenced by bonds, debentures, notes or similar instruments, (c) all obligations of such Person upon which interest charges are customarily paid, (d) all obligations of such Person under conditional sale or other title retention agreements relating to property acquired by such Person, (e) all obligations of such Person in respect of the deferred purchase price of property or services (excluding (i) trade accounts payable and accrued obligations incurred in the ordinary course of business and (ii) earn-outs and other contingent consideration obligations to the extent the amount thereof has not yet been determined based on the achievement of the applicable financial performance or other contingency for payment), (f) all obligations of others secured by (or for which the holder of such obligations has an existing right, contingent or otherwise, to be secured by) any Lien on property owned or acquired by such Person, whether or not the obligations secured thereby have been assumed, but limited, in the event such secured obligations are nonrecourse to such Person, to the fair value of such property, (g) all Guarantees by such Person of the obligations of any other Person, (h) all Capital Lease Obligations of such Person, (i) all obligations, contingent or otherwise, of such Person as an account party or applicant in respect of letters of credit and letters of guaranty and (j) all obligations, contingent or otherwise, of such Person in respect of bankers’ acceptances. The Indebtedness of any Person shall include the Indebtedness of any other entity (including any partnership in which such Person is a general partner or any joint venture (other than a joint venture that is itself a corporation or limited liability company) in which such Person is a joint venturer) to the extent such Person is liable therefor as a result of such Person’s ownership interest in or other relationship with such entity, except to the extent the terms of such Indebtedness provide that such Person is not liable therefor. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the term “Indebtedness” shall not include (a) contingent obligations, including Guarantees, incurred in the ordinary course of business or in respect of operating leases, and not in respect of borrowed money, (b) deferred or prepaid revenues, (c) purchase price holdbacks in respect of a portion of the purchase price of an asset to satisfy warranty or other unperformed obligations of the respective seller, (d) any amounts that any member of management, the employees or consultants of Holdings, the Borrower or any of the Subsidiaries may become entitled to under any cash incentive, deferred compensation or employee benefit plan in existence from time to time or (e) earn-outs and similar contingent payment obligations, non-compete arrangements, indemnification obligations and purchase price adjustments in connection with any Permitted Acquisition or permitted Investment.

Indemnified Taxes” means (a) Taxes other than Excluded Taxes, imposed on or with respect to any payment made by or on account of any obligation of any Loan Party under any Loan Document and (b) to the extent not otherwise described in (a), Other Taxes.

Indemnitee” has the meaning set forth in Section 9.03(b).

Information” has the meaning set forth in Section 9.12.

 

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Initial Term Loan” means the Term Loans funded on the Closing Date (the “Closing Date Term Loans”) and any Incremental Term Loans that are the same Class as the Closing Date Term Loans, as applicable.

Initial Term Loan Commitment” means, with respect to each Lender, the commitment, if any, of such Lender to make Initial Term Loans hereunder, which commitment as of the Closing Date is set forth on Schedule 2.01 opposite such Lender’s name under the heading “Initial Term Loan Commitment”, as such commitment may be reduced or increased from time to time pursuant to this Agreement.

Initial Term Loan Maturity Date” means the fifth anniversary of the Closing Date.

Intellectual Property Security Agreement” has the meaning assigned to such term in the Collateral Agreement.

Interest Election Request” means a written request by the Borrower to convert or continue a Borrowing in accordance with Section 2.07 substantially in the form of Exhibit E, or such other form as shall be approved by the Administrative Agent and, in the case of any conversion or continuance with respect to a Revolving Loan, the Revolver Agent.

Interest Payment Date” means (a) with respect to any ABR Loan (including a Swingline Loan), the last day of each March, June, September and December and (b) with respect to any Eurodollar Loan, the last day of the Interest Period applicable to the Borrowing of which such Loan is a part and, in the case of a Eurodollar Borrowing with an Interest Period of more than three months’ duration, each day prior to the last day of such Interest Period that occurs at intervals of three months’ duration after the first day of such Interest Period.

Interest Period” means, with respect to any Eurodollar Borrowing, the period commencing on the date of such Borrowing and ending on the numerically corresponding day in the calendar month that is one, two, three or six months thereafter (or twelve months or a shorter period as may be agreed by the Borrower, the Applicable Agent and all Lenders participating therein) and, in each case, as the Borrower may elect in the Borrowing Request; provided that (a) if any Interest Period would end on a day other than a Business Day, such Interest Period shall be extended to the next succeeding Business Day unless such next succeeding Business Day would fall in the next calendar month, in which case such Interest Period shall end on the immediately preceding Business Day, (b) any Interest Period that commences on the last Business Day of a calendar month (or on a day for which there is no numerically corresponding day in the last calendar month of such Interest Period) shall end on the last Business Day of the last calendar month of such Interest Period and (c) the two month interest period will be available until December 31, 2021 and only to the extent available any time thereafter. For purposes hereof, the date of a Borrowing initially shall be the date on which such Borrowing is made and thereafter shall be the effective date of the most recent conversion or continuation of such Borrowing.

Interpolated Rate” means, at any time, for any Interest Period, the rate per annum (rounded to the same number of decimal places as the LIBO Screen Rate) determined by the Administrative Agent (which determination shall be conclusive and binding absent manifest error) to be equal to the rate that results from interpolating on a linear basis between: (a) the LIBO Screen Rate for the longest period (for which that LIBO Screen Rate is available) that is shorter than the Impacted Interest Period; and (b) the LIBO Screen Rate for the shortest period (for which that LIBO Screen Rate is available) that exceeds the Impacted Interest Period, in each case, at such time.

 

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Investments” has the meaning set forth in Section 6.04.

IPO” means the initial public offering of the common stock of Clearwater pursuant to the Registration Statement on Form S-1, filed with the SEC on August 30, 2021, as amended.

IRS” means the United States Internal Revenue Service.

ISDA Definitions” means the 2006 ISDA Definitions published by the International Swaps and Derivatives Association, Inc. or any successor thereto, as amended or supplemented from time to time, or any successor definitional booklet for interest rate derivatives published from time to time by the International Swaps and Derivatives Association, Inc. or such successor thereto.

Issuing Bank” means JPMorgan, Morgan Stanley Bank, N.A., Goldman Sachs Bank USA, Wells Fargo Bank, N.A., Royal Bank of Canada, Credit Suisse AG, New York Branch and any Person that becomes an Issuing Bank with the approval of, and pursuant to an agreement with and in form and substance satisfactory to, the Administrative Agent and the Borrower in such Person’s capacity as Issuing Bank hereunder and together with its successors.

Issuing Bank Sublimit” means, with respect to JPMorgan, $3,055,555, with respect to Morgan Stanley Bank, N.A., $1,805,555, with respect to Goldman Sachs Bank USA, $2,083,333, with respect to Wells Fargo Bank, N.A., $1,018,519, with respect to Royal Bank of Canada, $1,018,519, with respect to Credit Suisse AG, New York Branch, $1,018,519, and with respect to any other Issuing Bank, such amount as agreed between such Issuing Bank and the Borrower.

JPMorgan” has the meaning set forth in the preamble to this Agreement.

Junior Lien Intercreditor Agreement” means an intercreditor agreement or another agreement in form and substance reasonably acceptable to the Administrative Agent and the Borrower.

Junior Lien Incremental Test Ratio” has the meaning set forth in Section 2.20(a).

Latest Maturity Date” means, at any date of determination and with respect to the specified Loans or Commitments (or in the absence of any such specification, all outstanding Loans and Commitments hereunder), the latest Maturity Date applicable to any such Loans or Commitments hereunder at such time, including the latest maturity date of any Extended Term Loan, any Extended Revolving Commitment, any Incremental Term Loans and any Incremental Revolving Commitments, in each case as extended in accordance with this Agreement from time to time.

LC Disbursement” means a payment made by the applicable Issuing Bank pursuant to a Letter of Credit.

 

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LC Exposure” means, at any time, the sum of (a) the aggregate undrawn amount of all outstanding Letters of Credit at such time plus (b) the aggregate amount of all LC Disbursements that have not yet been reimbursed by or on behalf of the Borrower at such time. The LC Exposure of any Revolving Lender at any time shall be its Applicable Percentage of the aggregate LC Exposure at such time.

LCT Election” has the meaning set forth in Section 1.07(f).

LCT Test Date” has the meaning set forth in Section 1.07(f).

Lenders” means each Person that was a lender on the Closing Date and any other Person that shall have become a party hereto pursuant to an Assignment and Assumption or an Additional Credit Extension Amendment, other than any such Person that ceases to be a party hereto pursuant to an Assignment and Assumption. Unless the context otherwise requires, the term “Lenders” includes the Swingline Lender.

Letter of Credit” means any letter of credit issued or deemed issued pursuant to this Agreement.

Letter of Credit Sublimit” has the meaning set forth in Section 2.05(b).

Liabilities” means any losses, claims (including intraparty claims), demands, damages or liabilities of any kind.

LIBO Rate” means, with respect to any Eurodollar Borrowing for any Interest Period, the LIBO Screen Rate at approximately 11:00 a.m., London time, two Business Days prior to the commencement of such Interest Period; provided that if the LIBO Screen Rate shall not be available at such time for such Interest Period (an “Impacted Interest Period”) then the LIBO Rate shall be the Interpolated Rate.

LIBO Screen Rate” means, for any day and time, with respect to any Eurodollar Borrowing for any Interest Period, the London interbank offered rate as administered by ICE Benchmark Administration (or any other Person that takes over the administration of such rate for dollars for a period equal in length to such Interest Period) as displayed on such day and time on pages LIBOR01 or LIBOR02 of the Reuters screen that displays such rate (or, in the event such rate does not appear on a Reuters page or screen, on any successor or substitute page on such screen that displays such rate, or on the appropriate page of such other information service that publishes such rate from time to time as selected by the Administrative Agent in its reasonable discretion); provided that if the LIBO Screen Rate as so determined would be less than 0 %, such rate shall be deemed to be 0% for the purposes of this Agreement.

LIBOR” has the meaning set forth in Section 1.08.

Lien” means, with respect to any asset, (a) any mortgage, deed of trust, lien, pledge, hypothecation, encumbrance, charge or security interest in, on or of such asset or other arrangement to provide priority or preference with respect to such asset, (b) the interest of a vendor or a lessor under any conditional sale agreement, capital lease or title retention agreement (or any financing lease having substantially the same economic effect as any of the foregoing) relating to such asset and (c) in the case of securities, any purchase option, call or similar right of a third party (other than customary rights of first refusal and tag, drag and similar rights in joint venture agreements (other than any such agreement in respect of any Subsidiary)) with respect to such securities.

 

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Limited Condition Transaction” means (i) any acquisition by one or more of the Borrower or its Restricted Subsidiaries of any assets, business or Person whose consummation is not conditioned on the availability of, or on obtaining, third party financing, (ii) any permitted Investment whose consummation is not conditioned on the availability of, or on obtaining, third party financing and (iii) any redemption, repurchase, defeasance, satisfaction and discharge or repayment of Indebtedness requiring irrevocable notice in advance of such redemption, repurchase, defeasance, satisfaction and discharge or repayment.

LLC” means any Person that is a limited liability company under the laws of its jurisdiction of formation.

Loan Document Obligations” means (a) the due and punctual payment by the Borrower of (i) the principal of, and interest (including interest accruing during the pendency of any bankruptcy, insolvency, receivership or other similar proceeding, regardless of whether allowed or allowable in such proceeding) on, the Loans, when and as due, whether at maturity, by acceleration, upon one or more dates set for prepayment or otherwise, (ii) each payment required to be made by the Borrower under this Agreement in respect of any Letter of Credit, when and as due, including payments in respect of reimbursement of disbursements, interest thereon (including interest accruing during the pendency of any bankruptcy, insolvency, receivership or other similar proceeding, regardless of whether allowed or allowable in such proceeding) and obligations to provide cash collateral (“L/C Reimbursement Obligations”), and (iii) all other monetary obligations of the Borrower to any of the Secured Parties under this Agreement and each other Loan Document, including obligations to pay fees, expense reimbursement obligations and indemnification obligations, whether primary, secondary, direct, contingent, fixed or otherwise (including monetary obligations incurred during the pendency of any bankruptcy, insolvency, receivership or other similar proceeding, regardless of whether allowed or allowable in such proceeding), (b) the due and punctual performance of all other obligations of the Borrower under or pursuant to this Agreement and each other Loan Document, and (c) the due and punctual payment and performance in full of all the obligations of each other Loan Party under or pursuant to the Collateral Agreement and each other Loan Document.

Loan Documents” means, collectively, (i) this Agreement, (ii) the promissory notes, if any, executed and delivered pursuant to Section 2.09(e), (iii) any Additional Credit Extension Amendment, (iv) the Security Documents, (v) the Fee Letter, (vi) the Foreign Guarantee and Collateral Documents and (vii) any other amendment or joinder to the foregoing.

Loan Parties” means Holdings, the Borrower, and the Subsidiary Loan Parties.

Loans” means the loans made by the Lenders to the Borrower pursuant to this Agreement or an Additional Credit Extension Amendment.

 

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“Long-Term Indebtedness” means any Indebtedness that, in accordance with GAAP, constitutes (or, when incurred, constituted) a long-term liability (excluding Revolving Loans and Swingline Loans or extensions of credit under any other revolving credit or similar facility).

Market Capitalization” means an amount equal to (i) the total number of issued and outstanding shares of common Equity Interests of Clearwater on the date of the declaration of a Restricted Payment multiplied by (ii) the arithmetic mean of the closing prices per share of such common Equity Interests on the principal securities exchange on which such common Equity Interests are traded for the 30 consecutive trading days immediately preceding the date of declaration of such Restricted Payment.

Material Adverse Effect” means a material adverse effect on (a) the business, operations, assets, liabilities, financial condition or results of operations of Holdings, the Borrower and the Subsidiaries, taken as a whole, (b) the ability of the Loan Parties (taken as a whole) to perform their payment obligations under the Loan Documents or (c) the rights of, or benefits available to, the Administrative Agent, Collateral Agent or one or more Lenders under any Loan Document.

Material Disposition” means the sale by the Borrower or any Subsidiary of assets (including the capital stock of a Subsidiary or a business unit) (whether effected pursuant to a division or otherwise) for aggregate consideration (including amounts received in connection with post-closing payment adjustments, earn-outs and noncompete payments) of at least $25,000,000.

Material Indebtedness” means Indebtedness (other than the Loans and Letters of Credit), or obligations in respect of one or more Swap Agreements, of any one or more of Holdings, the Borrower and the Subsidiaries in an aggregate principal amount exceeding the greater of (x) $25,000,000 and (y) 35% of TTM Consolidated EBITDA as of the date of such determination. For purposes of determining Material Indebtedness, the “principal amount” of the obligations of the Borrower or any Subsidiary in respect of any Swap Agreement at any time shall be the maximum aggregate amount (giving effect to any netting agreements) that the Borrower or such Subsidiary would be required to pay if such Swap Agreement were terminated at such time.

Material IP” means all trademarks, trade names, copyrights, patents and other intellectual property that if disposed of or transferred would reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect.

Material Subsidiary” means, at any date of determination, each wholly owned Restricted Subsidiary (when combined with the assets of such Subsidiary’s Restricted Subsidiaries after eliminating intercompany obligations) (i) whose total assets at the last day of the Test Period ending on the last day of the most recent fiscal period for which financial statements pursuant to Section 5.01(a) or (b) have been delivered were equal to or greater than 7.5% of the Total Assets of the Borrower and the Restricted Subsidiaries at such date or (ii) whose revenues during such Test Period were equal to or greater than 7.5% of the consolidated revenues of the Borrower and the Restricted Subsidiaries for such period (in the case of any determination relating to any Specified Transaction, on a Pro Forma Basis including the revenues of any Person being acquired in connection therewith), in each case determined in accordance with GAAP; provided that if, at any time and from time to time after the Closing Date, Restricted Subsidiaries that are not Material Subsidiaries (other than Excluded Subsidiaries (except pursuant to clause (viii) of the definition

 

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thereof)) have, in the aggregate, (a) total assets at the last day of such Test Period equal to or greater than 15.0% of the Total Assets of the Borrower and the Restricted Subsidiaries at such date or (b) revenues during such Test Period equal to or greater than 15.0% of the consolidated revenues of the Borrower and the Restricted Subsidiaries for such period, in each case determined in accordance with GAAP, then the Borrower shall, on or prior to the date on which financial statements for the last quarter of such Test Period are delivered pursuant to this Agreement, designate in writing to the Administrative Agent one or more of such Restricted Subsidiaries as Material Subsidiaries for each fiscal period until this proviso is no longer applicable.

Maturity Date” means (i) with respect to the Initial Term Loans, the Initial Term Loan Maturity Date, (ii) with respect to the Revolving Commitments, the Revolving Maturity Date, (iii) with respect to any Incremental Term Loans or Incremental Revolving Commitments, the final maturity date as specified in the applicable Additional Credit Extension Amendment and (iv) with respect to any Class of Extended Term Loans or Extended Revolving Commitments, the final maturity date as specified in the applicable Additional Credit Extension Amendment with respect thereto accepted by the respective Lender or Lenders; provided that, in each case, if such day is not a Business Day, the Maturity Date shall be the Business Day immediately succeeding such day.

Maximum Rate” has the meaning set forth in Section 9.13.

Moody’s” means Moody’s Investors Service, Inc.

Multiemployer Plan” means a multiemployer plan as defined in Section 4001(a)(3) of ERISA to which the Borrower or any ERISA Affiliate makes or is obligated to make contributions or may have any liability.

Net Proceeds” means, with respect to any event, (a) the cash proceeds received in respect of such event including (i) any cash received in respect of any non-cash proceeds (including any cash payments received by way of deferred payment of principal pursuant to a note or installment receivable or purchase price adjustment receivable or otherwise, but excluding any interest payments), but only as and when received, (ii) in the case of a casualty, insurance proceeds and (iii) in the case of a condemnation or similar event, condemnation awards and similar payments, net of (b) the sum of (i) all reasonable fees and out-of-pocket expenses paid to third parties (other than Affiliates) in connection with such event, (ii) in the case of a sale, transfer or other disposition of an asset (including pursuant to a casualty or a condemnation or similar proceeding), the amount of all payments required to be made as a result of such event to repay Indebtedness (other than Loans and other Indebtedness secured by Liens ranking pari passu or junior to the Liens securing the Obligations) secured by such asset or otherwise subject to mandatory prepayment as a result of such event and (iii) the amount of all taxes paid (or reasonably estimated to be payable) and the amount of any reserves established to fund liabilities reasonably estimated to be payable, in each case during the year that such event occurred or the next succeeding year and that are directly attributable to such event (as determined reasonably and in good faith by a Financial Officer); provided that, no net proceeds calculated in accordance with the foregoing of less than $10,000,000 realized in a single transaction or series of related transactions shall constitute Net Proceeds.

 

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Net Working Capital” means, at any date, (a) the consolidated current assets of Holdings, the Borrower and its Subsidiaries as of such date (excluding cash and Permitted Investments) minus (b) the consolidated current liabilities of Holdings, the Borrower and its Subsidiaries as of such date (excluding current liabilities in respect of Indebtedness). Net Working Capital at any date may be a positive or negative number. Net Working Capital increases when it becomes more positive or less negative and decreases when it becomes less positive or more negative.

Non-Consenting Lender” has the meaning set forth in Section 9.02(b).

Non-Core Assets” means, in connection with any acquisition (including any Permitted Acquisition) permitted hereunder, non-core assets acquired as part of such acquisition.

Non-Debt Fund Affiliate” means any Affiliate of Holdings (other than Holdings, the Borrower or any Subsidiary of the Borrower) that is not a Debt Fund Affiliate.

Non-Loan Party” means any Restricted Subsidiary of the Borrower that is not a Loan Party.

Note” has the meaning set forth in Section 2.09(e).

NYFRB” means the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.

NYFRB’s Website” means the website of the NYFRB at http://www.newyorkfed.org, or any successor source.

NYFRB Rate” means, for any day, the greater of (a) the Federal Funds Effective Rate in effect on such day and (b) the Overnight Bank Funding Rate in effect on such day (or for any day that is not a Business Day, for the immediately preceding Business Day); provided that if none of such rates are published for any day that is a Business Day, the term “NYFRB Rate” means the rate for a federal funds transaction quoted at 11:00 a.m. on such day received by the Administrative Agent from a federal funds broker of recognized standing selected by it.

Obligations” means (a) Loan Document Obligations, (b) obligations of any Restricted Subsidiary arising under any Secured Hedge Agreement (including monetary obligations incurred during the pendency of any bankruptcy, insolvency, receivership or other similar proceeding, regardless of whether allowed or allowable in such proceeding) and (c) Cash Management Obligations (including monetary obligations incurred during the pendency of any bankruptcy, insolvency, receivership or other similar proceeding, regardless of whether allowed or allowable in such proceeding); provided that the “Obligations” shall in no event include any Excluded Swap Obligations.

OFAC” means the Office of Foreign Assets Control of the U.S. Department of the Treasury.

OID” means original issue discount.

Operating Agreement” shall mean the Amended and Restated Limited Liability Company Agreement of CWAN entered into on or prior to the date hereof.

 

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Organizational Documents” means, with respect to any Person, collectively, (a) such Person’s articles or certificate of incorporation, articles or certificate of organization, certificate of limited partnership, certificate of formation, or comparable documents filed or recorded with the applicable Governmental Authority of such Person’s jurisdiction of formation and (b) such Person’s, bylaws, limited liability company agreement, partnership agreement or other comparable organizational or governing documents.

Other Connection Taxes” means, with respect to any Lender, Taxes imposed as a result of any present or former connection between such Person and the jurisdiction imposing such Tax (other than a connection arising from such Person having executed, delivered, become a party to, performed its obligations or received payments under, received or perfected a security interest under, engaged in any other transaction pursuant to, or enforced, any Loan Document, or sold or assigned an interest in any Loan or Loan Document).

Other Taxes” means any and all present or future recording, stamp, mortgage, court or documentary, intangible filing, transfer, or similar levies arising from any payment made under this Agreement or any Loan Document or from the execution, delivery, enforcement, registration, filing or recording of, from the receipt or perfection of a security interest under, or otherwise with respect to, this Agreement or any Loan Document, except any such Taxes that are Other Connection Taxes imposed with respect to an assignment (other than an assignment or designation of a new office made pursuant to Section 2.19).

Otherwise Applied” means, with respect to any Net Proceeds, the amount of such Net Proceeds that was (i) required to prepay the Loans pursuant to Section 2.11 or (ii) otherwise previously applied under the Loan Documents.

Overnight Bank Funding Rate” means, for any day, the rate comprised of both overnight federal funds and overnight Eurodollar borrowings by U.S.-managed banking offices of depository institutions, as such composite rate shall be determined by the NYFRB as set forth on the NYFRB’s Website from time to time, and published on the next succeeding Business Day by the NYFRB as an overnight bank funding rate.

Participant” has the meaning set forth in Section 9.04(c).

Participant Register” has the meaning set forth in Section 9.04(c).

Patriot Act” has the meaning set forth in Section 9.14.

Payment” has the meaning set forth in Section 8.06(c).

Payment Notice” has the meaning set forth in Section 8.06(c).

PBGC” means the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation referred to and defined in ERISA and any successor entity performing similar functions.

Permits” means, with respect to any Person, any permit, supplier or provider number, accreditation, approval, authorization, license, registration, certificate, concession, grant, franchise, waiver, variance or permission from, and any other contractual obligations with, any Governmental Authority, in each case whether or not having the force of law and applicable to or binding upon such Person or any of its property or operations or to which such Person or any of its property or operations is subject.

 

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Permitted Acquisition” means any transaction or series of related transactions by Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary for the direct or indirect (a) acquisition of all or substantially all of the property of any Person, or all or substantially all of the assets constituting a business unit, division, product line or line of business of any Person, (b) acquisition of more than 50% of the Equity Interests (or such lesser amount in an existing Investment the acquisition of which would result in the Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries holding at least 50% of such Equity Interests) of any Person, and otherwise causing such Person to become a Subsidiary of such Person, or (c) subject to Section 6.04, merger, amalgamation or consolidation or any other combination with any Person, in each case, if each of the following conditions is met, or if the Required Lenders have otherwise consented in writing thereto:

(i) no Specified Default has occurred and is continuing at the time the definitive agreement for such acquisition is executed;

(ii) the Persons or business to be acquired (other than Non-Core Assets, if any, with respect to such acquisition) shall be, or shall be engaged in, a line of business other than a Permitted Business;

(iii) (a) in the case of an acquisition of all or substantially all of the property of any Person or all or substantially all of the assets constituting a business unit, division, product line or line of business of any Person, the Person making such acquisition is Borrower or a Restricted Subsidiary (or a newly formed entity created to consummate the acquisition and directly or indirectly controlled by Borrower), or upon consummation of such acquisition becomes, a Restricted Subsidiary, (b) in the case of an acquisition of more than 50% of the Equity Interests (or such lesser amount in an existing Investment the acquisition of which would result in the Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries holding at least 50% of such Equity Interests) of any Person, both the Person making such acquisition and the Person directly so acquired is Borrower or a Restricted Subsidiary, or upon consummation of such acquisition becomes, a Restricted Subsidiary, and (c) in the case of a merger, amalgamation or consolidation or any other combination with any Person, the Person surviving such merger, amalgamation consolidation or other combination is Borrower or a Restricted Subsidiary, or upon consummation of such acquisition becomes, a Restricted Subsidiary, subject, in each case, of the right of the Borrower to designate Unrestricted Subsidiaries so long as the requirements in Section 5.14 are complied with; and

(iv) solely with respect to the acquisition of Persons organized in the United States or property or assets located in the United States, the actions set forth in the definition of “Collateral and Guarantee Requirement,” to the extent applicable, shall have been taken (or arrangements for the taking of such actions after the consummation of such acquisition shall have been made that are reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent), unless such newly created or acquired Subsidiary is designated as an Unrestricted Subsidiary pursuant to Section 5.14 or is otherwise an Excluded Subsidiary.

 

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Permitted Acquisition Agreement” means any agreement of merger, purchase or acquisition relating to a Permitted Acquisition.

Permitted Acquisition Company Representations” means, with respect to the representations and warranties contained in any Permitted Acquisition Agreement with respect to a Permitted Acquisition subject to customary “funds certain provisions”, such representations and warranties regarding the target of such Permitted Acquisition in the Permitted Acquisition Agreement as are material to the interests of the Lenders financing such Permitted Acquisition, but only to the extent that Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries or any of their respective Affiliates has the right to terminate its or its Affiliates’ obligations under the Permitted Acquisition Agreement (or the right not to consummate the acquisition pursuant to the Permitted Acquisition Agreement) or to not close thereunder as a result of a breach of such representations and warranties in such Permitted Acquisition Agreement.

Permitted Business” means (i) any business engaged in by the Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries on the Closing Date and (ii) any business or other activities that are reasonably similar, ancillary, complementary or related to, or a reasonable extension, development or expansion of, the businesses in which the Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries are engaged on the Closing Date.

Permitted Distribution” has the meaning set forth in Section 6.08(a)(ix).

Permitted Encumbrances” means:

(a) Liens imposed by law for Taxes that are not yet due and payable or are being contested in compliance with Section 5.05,

(b) carriers’, warehousemen’s, mechanics’, materialmen’s, repairmen’s and other like Liens imposed by law, arising in the ordinary course of business and securing obligations that are not overdue by more than 30 days or if more than 30 days overdue, are unfiled and no other action has been taken to enforce such Liens or that are being contested in good faith and by appropriate actions, in each case if adequate reserves with respect thereto are maintained on the books of the applicable Person in accordance with GAAP or the equivalent accounting principles in the relevant local jurisdiction,

(c) pledges and deposits made in the ordinary course of business in compliance with workers’ compensation, unemployment insurance, other social security benefits or other insurance-related obligations (including, but not limited to, in respect of deductibles, self-insured retention amounts and premiums and adjustments thereto),

(d) deposits and pledges to secure the performance of bids, trade contracts, leases, public or statutory obligations, progress payments, surety and appeal bonds, performance bonds and other obligations of a like nature incurred in the ordinary course of business,

(e) judgment liens in respect of judgments that do not constitute an Event of Default under paragraph (i) of Section 7.01,

 

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(f) minor survey exceptions, easements or reservations of rights for others for, licenses, zoning restrictions, rights-of-way, sewers, electric lines, telegraph and telephone lines and other similar purposes, minor defects or irregularities of title and other similar encumbrances on real property imposed by law or arising in the ordinary course of business that do not secure any monetary obligations and do not either detract from the value of the affected property or interfere with the ordinary conduct of business of the Borrower or any Subsidiary, in each case in any material respect, taken as a whole,

(g) landlords’ and lessors’ and other like Liens in respect of rent not in default,

(h) [reserved],

(i) leases or subleases, and

(j) Liens arising from precautionary Uniform Commercial Code financing statement or similar filings;

provided that the term “Permitted Encumbrances” shall not include any Lien securing Indebtedness.

Permitted Holder” means any of the following: (i) any of the Permitted Investors or their respective Affiliates, (ii) any investment fund or vehicle managed, sponsored or advised by a Permitted Investor or any Affiliate thereof, and any Affiliate of or successor to any such investment fund or vehicle and (iii) each partner, officer, director, principal or member of the Permitted Investors or any Affiliate of the Permitted Investors.

Permitted Investments” means:

(a) United States dollars or, in the case of any Restricted Subsidiary which is not a Domestic Subsidiary, any other currencies held from time to time in the ordinary course of business,

(b) direct obligations of, or obligations of the principal of and interest on which are unconditionally guaranteed by, the United States of America (or by any agency thereof to the extent such obligations are backed by the full faith and credit of the United States of America), in each case maturing within one year from the date of acquisition thereof,

(c) direct obligations issued by any state of the United States of America or any political subdivision of any such state, or any public instrumentality thereof, in each case having maturities of not more than 12 months from the date of acquisition,

(d) investments in commercial paper maturing within 365 days from the date of acquisition thereof and having, at such date of acquisition, a credit rating from S&P or Moody’s of at least A2 or P2, respectively,

(e) investments in certificates of deposit, banker’s acceptances and time deposits maturing within 365 days from the date of acquisition thereof issued or guaranteed by or placed with, and money market deposit accounts issued or offered by, any domestic office of any commercial bank organized under the laws of the United States of America or any State thereof that has a combined capital and surplus and undivided profits of not less than $500,000,000,

 

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(f) Indebtedness or preferred stock issued by Persons with a rating of “A” or higher from Standard & Poor’s Rating Services or “A2” or higher from Moody’s Investors Service, Inc. with maturities of 12 months or less from the date of acquisition,

(g) fully collateralized repurchase agreements with a term of not more than 30 days for securities described in clause (b) above and entered into with a financial institution satisfying the criteria described in clause (e) above, and

(h) investments in money market funds that comply with the criteria set forth in SEC Rule 2a-7 under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended, substantially all of whose assets are invested in investments of the type described in clauses (a) through (g) above.

Permitted Investors” means each of (i) Calculated DF Holdings, L.P., (ii) Durable Capital Master Fund LP, (iii) DCP CA Blocker LLC, (iv) Sockeye Trading Company, Inc., (v) Carbon Management Holdings, LLC, (vi) Calculated DF Holdings, LP, (vii) WCAS XII Carbon Analytics Acquisition, L.P., (viii) WCAS XIII Carbon Analytics Acquisition, L.P., (ix) WCAS GP CW LLC, (x) Welsh, Carson, Anderson & Stowe XII, L.P., (xi) Welsh, Carson, Anderson & Stowe XII Delaware, L.P., (xii) Welsh, Carson, Anderson & Stowe XII Delaware II, L.P., (xiii) Welsh, Carson, Anderson & Stowe XII Cayman, L.P., (xiv) WCAS XII Carbon Investors, L.P., (xv) WCAS XIII Carbon Investors, L.P., (xvi) Galibier Purchaser LLC and (xvii) WP CA Holdco, L.P.

Permitted Liens” has the meaning set forth in Section 6.02.

Permitted Refinancing” means any Indebtedness of the Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries issued in exchange for, or the net proceeds of which are used to extend, renew, refund, refinance, replace, defease or discharge other Indebtedness of the Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries (other than intercompany Indebtedness); provided that:

(a) the principal amount (or accreted value, if applicable) of such Permitted Refinancing does not exceed the principal amount (or accreted value, if applicable) of the Indebtedness extended, renewed, refunded, refinanced, replaced, defeased or discharged (plus all accrued interest on the Indebtedness and the amount of all fees, commissions, discounts and expenses, including premiums, incurred in connection therewith),

(b) either (a) such Permitted Refinancing has a final maturity date later than the final maturity date of, and has a Weighted Average Life to Maturity equal to or greater than the Weighted Average Life to Maturity of, the Indebtedness being extended, renewed, refunded, refinanced, replaced, defeased or discharged or (b) all scheduled payments on or in respect of such Permitted Refinancing (other than interest payments) shall be at least 91 days following the final scheduled maturity of the Loans,

 

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(c) if the Indebtedness being extended, renewed, refunded, refinanced, replaced, defeased or discharged is Subordinated Indebtedness, such Permitted Refinancing is subordinated in right of payment to the Obligations on terms at least as favorable to the holders of the Obligations as those contained in the documentation governing the Subordinated Indebtedness being extended, renewed, refunded, refinanced, replaced, defeased or discharged,

(d) such Indebtedness is incurred (i) by the Borrower or by any Restricted Subsidiary who is the obligor on the Indebtedness being renewed, refunded, refinanced, replaced, defeased or discharged, (ii) by any Loan Party if the obligor on the Indebtedness being renewed, refunded, refinanced, replaced, defeased or discharged is a Loan Party or (iii) by any Non-Loan Party if the obligor on the Indebtedness being renewed, refunded, refinanced, replaced, defeased or discharged is a Non-Loan Party, and

(e) such Indebtedness is not secured by any assets other than the assets that secured the Indebtedness being renewed, refunded, refinanced, replaced, defeased or discharged and if the Liens securing such Indebtedness were subject to a Junior Lien Intercreditor Agreement with the Collateral Agent, the Liens securing such new Indebtedness shall be subject to a Junior Lien Intercreditor Agreement, as applicable, with the Collateral Agent on terms not less favorable to the Secured Parties than the terms of such existing Junior Lien Intercreditor Agreement, as applicable.

Permitted Security” means (a) common stock of Holdings or (b) Qualified Preferred Stock, in each case (i) (x) issued to the Permitted Investors for cash or (y) issued to any other Person that makes an equity investment in Holdings in connection with the Transactions and (ii) the proceeds of which are contributed by Holdings to the Borrower in exchange for common stock or as a capital contribution.

Person” means any natural person, corporation, limited liability company, trust, joint venture, association, company, partnership, Governmental Authority or other entity.

Plan” means any “employee pension benefit plan” (as defined in Section 3(2) of ERISA) that is subject to the provisions of Title IV or Section 302 of ERISA or Section 412 of the Code, and in respect of which the Borrower or any ERISA Affiliate is (or, if such plan were terminated, would under Section 4069 of ERISA be deemed to be) an “employer” as defined in Section 3(5) of ERISA.

Plan Asset Regulations” means the U.S. Department of Labor regulation codified at 29 C.F.R. §2510.3-101, as modified by Section 3(42) of ERISA.

Prepayment Account” has the meaning set forth in Section 2.16.

Prepayment Event” means:

(a) any sale, transfer or other disposition of any property or asset of Holdings, the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary in excess of $10,000,000 per transaction (or series of related transactions), other than (i) dispositions described in clauses (a), (b), (c) and (d) of Section 6.05 or (ii) dispositions pursuant to clause (e) of Section 6.05 to the extent the property subject to such transaction was acquired after the Closing Date and such acquisition was funded by the issuance of Equity Interests by Holdings (or capital contributions in respect thereof) substantially simultaneously with such acquisition, or

 

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(b) any casualty or other insured damage to, or any taking under power of eminent domain or by condemnation or similar proceeding of, any property or asset of Holdings, the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary with a fair value immediately prior to such event equal to or greater than $10,000,000, or

(c) the incurrence by Holdings, the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary of (x) any Refinancing Indebtedness or (y) any Indebtedness not permitted under Section 6.01.

Prime Rate” means, for any day, a rate per annum equal to the highest of (a) the rate last quoted by The Wall Street Journal as the “Prime Rate” in the United States or, if The Wall Street Journal ceases to quote such rate, the highest per annum interest rate published by the Federal Reserve Board in Federal Reserve Statistical Release H.15 (519) (Selected Interest Rates) as the “bank prime loan” rate or, if such rate is no longer quoted therein, any similar rate quoted therein (as reasonably determined by the Administrative Agent) or any similar release by the Federal Reserve Board (as reasonably determined by the Administrative Agent), (b) the sum of 0.50% per annum and the Federal Funds Effective Rate, and (c) the sum of (x) the LIBO Rate calculated for each such day based on an Interest Period of one month determined two Business Days prior to such day (but for the avoidance of doubt not less than one percent (1.00%) per annum), plus (y) the excess of the Applicable Rate for Eurodollar Loans over the Applicable Rate for ABR Loans, in each instance, as of such day. Any change in the Prime Rate due to a change in any of the foregoing shall be effective on the effective date of such change in the “bank prime loan” rate, the Federal Funds Rate or the LIBO Rate for an Interest Period of one month.

Pro Forma Basis” and “Pro Forma Effect” mean, with respect to compliance with any test or covenant or calculation of any ratio hereunder, the determination or calculation of such test, covenant or ratio (including in connection with Specified Transactions) in accordance with Section 1.07.

Pro Forma Compliance” means, with respect to the Financial Covenant, compliance on a Pro Forma Basis in accordance with Section 1.07.

Proposed Change” has the meaning set forth in Section 9.02(b).

Public Company Costs” means, as to any Person, costs relating to compliance with the provisions of the Securities Act and the Exchange Act (or similar regulations applicable in other listing jurisdictions), as applicable to companies with equity securities held by the public, costs associated with, or in anticipation of, or preparation for, compliance with the requirements of the Sarbanes Oxley Act of 2002 (or similar non-U.S. regulations) and the rules and regulations promulgated in connection therewith (or similar regulations applicable in other listing jurisdictions), the rules of national securities exchange companies with listed equity, directors’ or managers’ compensation, fees and expense reimbursement, costs relating to investor relations, shareholder meetings and reports to shareholders, directors’ and officers’ insurance and other executive costs, legal and other professional fees, and listing fees, whether arising by virtue of the initial listing of such Person’s equity securities on a national securities exchange (or similar non-U.S. exchange) or in respect of the ongoing operation of such Person as a listed equity or its listed debt securities following the initial listing of such Person’s equity securities or debt securities, respectively, on a national securities exchange (or similar non-U.S. exchange).

 

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QFC” has the meaning assigned to the term “qualified financial contract” in, and shall be interpreted in accordance with, 12 U.S.C. 5390(c)(8)(D).

QFC Credit Support” has the meaning assigned to it in Section 9.22.

Qualified Counterparty” means any Person which is a party to a Swap Agreement or a Cash Management Agreement with the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary and that is or was a Lender or an Affiliate of a Lender on the Closing Date or at the time it enters into such Swap Agreement or Cash Management Agreement, as applicable, or that is designated as a “Qualified Counterparty” by the Borrower to the Collateral Agent, in each case in its capacity as a party thereto.

Qualified Preferred Stock” means common stock or preferred stock of Holdings that (a) does not require the payment of cash dividends (it being understood that cumulative dividends shall be permitted), (b) is not mandatorily redeemable pursuant to a sinking fund obligation or otherwise prior to the date that is 180 days after the Latest Maturity Date at the time of incurrence thereof (other than upon an event of default or change of control; provided that any such payment is subordinated (whether by contract or pursuant to Holdings’ charter or the certificate of designations of such preferred stock) in right of payment to the Obligations on the terms set forth in the certificate of incorporation of Holdings in existence on the Closing Date or such other terms reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent), (c) contains no maintenance covenants, other covenants materially adverse to the Lenders or remedies (other than voting rights) and (d) is convertible only into common equity of Holdings or securities that would constitute Qualified Preferred Stock.

Reference Time” with respect to any setting of the then-current Benchmark means (1) if such Benchmark is LIBO Rate, 11:00 a.m. (London time) on the day that is two London banking days preceding the date of such setting, and (2) if such Benchmark is not LIBO Rate, the time determined by the Administrative Agent in its reasonable discretion.

Refinancing Indebtedness” means (i) any Refinancing Term Loans and (ii) any Refinancing Revolving Commitments.

Refinancing Revolving Commitments” means any Incremental Revolving Commitments that are designated by a Responsible Officer of the Borrower as “Refinancing Revolving Commitments” in the applicable Additional Credit Extension Amendment; provided that on the date of effectiveness thereof the Borrower reduces the aggregate amount of a Class of Revolving Commitments, Extended Revolving Commitments or previously established Incremental Revolving Commitments by a corresponding amount.

Refinancing Term Loans” means any Incremental Term Loans that are designated by a Responsible Officer of the Borrower as “Refinancing Term Loans” in the applicable Additional Credit Extension Amendment.

 

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Register” has the meaning set forth in Section 9.04(b).

Rejection Notice” has the meaning specified in Section 2.11(g).

Related Parties” means, with respect to any specified Person, such Person’s Affiliates and the respective directors, members, partners, officers, employees, agents, advisors and other representatives of such Person and such Person’s Affiliates.

Release” means any release, spill, emission, leaking, dumping, injection, pouring, deposit, disposal, discharge, dispersal, leaching or migration into or through the environment or within, into or from any building, structure, facility or fixture.

Relevant Governmental Body” means the Federal Reserve Board or the NYFRB, or a committee officially endorsed or convened by the Federal Reserve Board or the NYFRB (including, without limitation, the Alternative Reference Rates Committee), or any successor thereto.

Replacement Term Loans” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 9.02(c).

Required Lenders” means, at any time, Lenders having Revolving Exposures, outstanding Term Loans and unused Commitments representing more than 50% of the aggregate Revolving Exposures, outstanding Term Loans and unused Commitments at such time (disregarding any of the foregoing of a Defaulting Lender).

Required Revolving Lenders” means, at any time, Lenders having Revolving Exposures and unused Revolving Commitments representing more than 50% of the sum of the aggregate Revolving Exposures and unused Revolving Commitments at such time (disregarding any of the foregoing of a Defaulting Lender).

Required Term Lenders” means, at any time, Lenders having outstanding Term Loans and unused Commitments in respect of Term Loans representing more than 50% of the aggregate outstanding Term Loans and unused Commitments in respect of Term Loans at such time (disregarding any of the foregoing of a Defaulting Lender).

Requirement of Law” means, with respect to any Person, (i) the Organizational Documents of such Person and (ii) any statute, law, treaty, rule, regulation, order, decree, writ, injunction or determination of any arbitrator or court or other Governmental Authority, in each case applicable to or binding upon such Person or any of its property or to which such Person or any of its property is subject.

Resolution Authority” means an EEA Resolution Authority or, with respect to any UK Financial Institution, a UK Resolution Authority.

Responsible Officer” means the chief executive officer, president, vice president, chief financial officer, chief operating officer, chief administrative officer, secretary or assistant secretary, treasurer or assistant treasurer or other similar officer or Person performing similar functions of a Loan Party. Any document delivered hereunder that is signed by a Responsible Officer of a Loan Party shall be conclusively presumed to have been authorized by all necessary corporate, partnership and/or other action on the part of such Loan Party and such Responsible Officer shall be conclusively presumed to have acted on behalf of such Loan Party.

 

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Restricted Payment” means any dividend or other distribution (whether in cash, securities or other property) with respect to any Equity Interests in the Holdings, the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary, or any payment thereon (whether in cash, securities or other property), including any sinking fund or similar deposit, on account of the purchase, redemption, retirement, acquisition, cancellation or termination of any such Equity Interests; provided that the repurchase, redemption or other acquisition or retirement for value of any Equity Interests of a Restricted Subsidiary by the Borrower or a Restricted Subsidiary shall not constitute a Restricted Payment but shall constitute an Investment.

Restricted Subsidiary” means any Subsidiary of the Borrower other than an Unrestricted Subsidiary.

Reuters” means, as applicable, Thomson Reuters Corp., Refinitiv, or any successor thereto.

Revolver Agent” means the Administrative Agent.

Revolving Availability Period” means the period from and including the Closing Date to but excluding the earlier of (a) the Revolving Maturity Date and (b) the date of termination of the Revolving Commitments.

Revolving Commitment” means, with respect to each Lender, the commitment, if any, of such Lender to make Revolving Loans hereunder, which commitment is set forth on Schedule 2.01 opposite such Lender’s name under the heading “Revolving Commitment”, expressed as an amount representing the maximum possible aggregate amount of such Lender’s Revolving Exposure hereunder, as such commitment may be reduced or increased from time to time pursuant to this Agreement.

Revolving Commitment Increase” has the meaning set forth in Section 2.20(e).

Revolving Credit Facility” has the meaning set forth in the preamble to this Agreement.

Revolving Creditor” means each Revolving Lender, the Swingline Lender, each Issuing Bank and the Administrative Agent and, to the extent its claim arises in connection with the credit facility evidenced by the Revolving Commitments, each other Indemnitee and holder of an Obligation of a Loan Party.

Revolving Exposure” means, with respect to any Lender at any time, the sum of the outstanding principal amount of such Lender’s Revolving Loans at such time.

Revolving Lender” means a Lender with a Revolving Commitment or, if the Revolving Commitments have terminated or expired, a Lender with Revolving Exposure.

Revolving Loan” means the Loans made pursuant to clauses (b) and (c) of Section 2.01.

 

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Revolving Loan Obligations” means all Obligations arising under or in respect of the Revolving Commitments.

Revolving Maturity Date” means the fifth anniversary of the Closing Date.

S&P” means Standard & Poor’s Ratings Group, Inc.

Sanctioned Country” means, at any time, a country, region or territory which is itself the subject or target of any comprehensive, country-based Sanctions (at the time of this Agreement, Crimea, Cuba, Iran, North Korea and Syria).

Sanctioned Person” means, at any time, (a) any Person listed in any Sanctions-related list of designated Persons maintained by OFAC, the U.S. Department of State, the European Union or Her Majesty’s Treasury of the United Kingdom, (b) any other Person located, organized or ordinarily resident in a Sanctioned Country or (c) any Person 50% or more of the Equity Interests of which are owned by one or more Persons referenced in clause (a).

Sanctions” means all economic or financial sanctions or trade embargoes imposed, administered or enforced from time to time by (a) the U.S. government, including those administered by OFAC or the U.S. Department of State, or (b) the European Union or Her Majesty’s Treasury of the United Kingdom.

SEC” means the Securities and Exchange Commission or any Governmental Authority succeeding to any of its principal functions.

SEC Extension” means any extension granted by the SEC pursuant to any public pronouncements that apply to the Borrower or any direct or indirect parent of the Borrower in connection with the delivery of financial statements; provided that, any automatic extension hereunder as a result of such SEC Extension shall not be for a period of more than 90 days.

Secured Hedge Agreement” means any Swap Agreement that is entered into by and between the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary and any Qualified Counterparty.

Secured Indebtedness” at any date means the aggregate principal amount of Total Indebtedness outstanding at such date that consists of Indebtedness that in each case is then secured by Liens on any property or assets of Borrower or its Subsidiaries.

Secured Net Leverage Ratio” means, with respect to any Test Period, the ratio of (a) Consolidated Secured Net Indebtedness as of the last day of such Test Period to (b) Consolidated EBITDA for such Test Period.

Secured Parties” means (a) the Lenders, (b) the Collateral Agent, (c) the Administrative Agent, (d) the Revolver Agent, (e) the Issuing Banks, (f) each Qualified Counterparty, (g) each Indemnitee, and (h) the successors and assigns of each of the foregoing.

Securities Exchange Act” means the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder.

 

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Security Documents” means the Collateral Agreement, the Foreign Guarantee and Collateral Documents, the Intellectual Property Security Agreements (if applicable), each reaffirmation agreement or other similar agreement delivered in connection with any or all of the foregoing and each other security agreement or other instrument or document executed and delivered pursuant to Section 5.12 or 5.13 to secure any of the Obligations.

series” means, with respect to any Extended Term Loans, Incremental Term Loans or Replacement Term Loans, all such Term Loans that have the same maturity date, amortization and interest rate provisions and that are designated as part of such “series” pursuant to the applicable Additional Credit Extension Amendment.

SOFR” means, with respect to any Business Day, a rate per annum equal to the secured overnight financing rate for such Business Day published by the SOFR Administrator on the SOFR Administrator’s Website on the immediately succeeding Business Day.

SOFR Administrator” means the NYFRB (or a successor administrator of the secured overnight financing rate).

SOFR Administrator’s Website” means the NYFRB’s website, currently at http://www.newyorkfed.org, or any successor source for the secured overnight financing rate identified as such by the SOFR Administrator from time to time.

Solvent” and “Solvency” mean, with respect to any Person on any date of determination, that on such date (a) the fair value (on a going concern basis) of the assets of such Person and its subsidiaries, on a consolidated basis, exceeds, on a consolidated basis, their debts and liabilities, subordinated, contingent or otherwise, (b) the present fair saleable value (on a going concern basis) of the property of such Person and its subsidiaries, on a consolidated basis, is greater than the amount that will be required to pay the probable liability, on a consolidated basis, of their debts and other liabilities, subordinated, contingent or otherwise, as such debts and other liabilities become absolute and matured, (c) such Person and its subsidiaries, on a consolidated basis, are able to pay their debts and liabilities, subordinated, contingent or otherwise, as such liabilities become absolute and matured and (d) such Person and its subsidiaries, on a consolidated basis, are not engaged in, and are not about to engage in, business for which they have unreasonably small capital. The amount of any contingent liability at any time shall be computed as the amount that would reasonably be expected to become an actual and matured liability.

Specified Default” means an Event of Default pursuant to Section 7.01(a), (b), (g) or (h).

Specified Indebtedness” has the meaning set forth in Section 6.08(b).

Specified Representations” means those representations and warranties made by the Loan Parties in Section 3.01(a) (with respect to organizational existence only), Section 3.01(b) (as relates to the execution, delivery and performance of the Loan Documents), Section 3.02 (as relates to due authorization, execution, delivery and enforceability of the Loan Documents), Section 3.03 (with respect to charter documents and limited to execution, delivery and performance of the Loan Documents, borrowing under, guaranteeing under and granting of security interests in the Collateral), Section 3.08, Section 3.16, Section 3.17, Section 3.18 and Section 3.19.

 

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Specified Transactions” means (a) the Transactions, (b) any acquisition (including a Permitted Acquisition), any Material Disposition, any sale, transfer or other disposition that results in a Person ceasing to be a Restricted Subsidiary, any involuntary disposition, any Investment that results in a Person becoming a Restricted Subsidiary, in each case, whether by merger, consolidation or otherwise, any incurrence or repayment of Indebtedness, any Restricted Payment, any designation of a Restricted Subsidiary as an Unrestricted Subsidiary and any redesignation of an Unrestricted Subsidiary as a Restricted Subsidiary or (c) any other event that by the terms of the Loan Documents requires Pro Forma Compliance with a test or covenant or requires such test or covenant to be calculated on a Pro Forma Basis.

Statutory Reserve Rate” means a fraction (expressed as a decimal), the numerator of which is the number one and the denominator of which is the number one minus the aggregate of the maximum reserve percentages (including any marginal, special, emergency or supplemental reserves) expressed as a decimal established by the Board to which the Person serving as the Administrative Agent (or any Affiliate thereof) is subject with respect to the Adjusted LIBO Rate, for eurocurrency funding (currently referred to as “Eurocurrency Liabilities” in Regulation D of the Board). Such reserve percentages shall include those imposed pursuant to such Regulation D. Eurodollar Loans shall be deemed to constitute eurocurrency funding and to be subject to such reserve requirements without benefit of or credit for proration, exemptions or offsets that may be available from time to time to any Lender under such Regulation D or any comparable regulation. The Statutory Reserve Rate shall be adjusted automatically on and as of the effective date of any change in any reserve percentage.

Subordinated Indebtedness” means Indebtedness of Holdings, the Borrower or any Subsidiary that is subordinated in right of payment to the Obligations expressly by its terms.

Subsequent Transaction” has the meaning set forth in Section 1.07(f).

subsidiary” means, with respect to any Person (the “parent”) at any date, any corporation, limited liability company, partnership, association or other entity the accounts of which would be consolidated with those of the parent in the parent’s consolidated financial statements if such financial statements were prepared in accordance with GAAP as of such date, as well as any other corporation, limited liability company, partnership, association or other entity of which securities or other ownership interests representing more than 50% of the equity or more than 50% of the ordinary voting power or, in the case of a partnership, more than 50% of the general partnership interests are, as of such date, owned, controlled or held.

Subsidiary” means any subsidiary of the Borrower.

Subsidiary Loan Party” means any Domestic Subsidiary (other than an Excluded Subsidiary).

Succeeding Holdings” means any entity, other than the prior Holdings, that becomes the immediate parent of the Borrower in accordance with Section 5.12(b).

Supported QFC” has the meaning assigned to it in Section 9.22.

 

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Swap Agreement” means any agreement with respect to any swap, forward, future or derivative transaction or option or similar agreement involving, or settled by reference to, one or more rates, currencies, commodities, equity or debt instruments or securities, or economic, financial or pricing indices or measures of economic, financial or pricing risk or value or any similar transaction or any combination of these transactions; provided that no phantom stock or similar plan providing for payments on account of services provided by current or former directors, officers, employees or consultants of the Borrower or the Subsidiaries shall be a Swap Agreement.

Swap Obligation” means, with respect to any Loan Party, any obligation to pay or perform under any agreement, contract or transaction that constitutes a “swap” within the meaning of Section 1a(47) of the Commodity Exchange Act.

Swingline Exposure” means, at any time, the aggregate principal amount of all Swingline Loans outstanding at such time. The Swingline Exposure of any Lender at any time shall be its Applicable Percentage of the aggregate Swingline Exposure at such time.

Swingline Lender” means JPMorgan, in its capacity as lender of Swingline Loans hereunder, together with its successors in such capacity.

Swingline Loan” means a Loan made pursuant to Section 2.04.

Swingline Sublimit” has the meaning set forth in Section 2.04.

Taxes” means any and all present or future taxes, levies, imposts, duties, deductions, withholdings (including backup withholding), assessments, fees or other charges in the nature of tax imposed by any Governmental Authority, including any interest, additions to tax or penalties applicable thereto.

Tax Receivable Agreement” means that certain Tax Receivable Agreement, dated as of September 28, 2021, by and among Clearwater Analytics Holdings, Inc., CWAN Holdings, LLC and the other parties thereto.

Term Creditor” means each Term Lender and, to the extent its claim arises in connection with the Term Loans, each other Indemnitee and holder of an Obligation of a Loan Party.

Term Lender” means, at any time, any Lender that has a Term Loan and/or Commitment with respect to a Term Loan at such time.

Term Loan Obligations” means all Obligations arising under or in respect of the Term Loans.

Term Loans” means the Initial Term Loans, the Incremental Term Loans of each series, the Replacement Term Loan and the Extended Term Loans of each series, collectively, or as the context may require.

Term Loan Increase” has the meaning set forth in Section 2.20(e).

 

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Term SOFR” means, for the applicable Corresponding Tenor as of the applicable Reference Time, the forward-looking term rate based on SOFR that has been selected or recommended by the Relevant Governmental Body.

Term SOFR Notice” means a notification by the Administrative Agent to the Lenders and the Borrower of the occurrence of a Term SOFR Transition Event.

Term SOFR Transition Event” means the determination by the Administrative Agent that (a) Term SOFR has been recommended for use by the Relevant Governmental Body, (b) the administration of Term SOFR is administratively feasible for the Administrative Agent and (c) a Benchmark Transition Event or an Early Opt-in Election, as applicable, has previously occurred resulting in a Benchmark Replacement in accordance with Section 2.14 that is not Term SOFR.

Test Period” means, for any date of determination under this Agreement, the four consecutive fiscal quarters of the Borrower most recently ended as of such date of determination for which financial statements have been delivered.

Total Assets” means, as of any date of determination, the amount that would, in conformity with GAAP, be set forth opposite the caption “total assets” (or any like caption) on the most recent consolidated balance sheet of the Borrower and the Restricted Subsidiaries at such date (and, in the case of any determination relating to any Specified Transaction, on a Pro Forma Basis including any property or assets being acquired in connection therewith).

Total Indebtedness” means, as of any date, the aggregate principal amount of Indebtedness of Holdings, the Borrower and the Subsidiaries outstanding as of such date, in the amount that would be reflected on a balance sheet prepared as of such date on a consolidated basis in accordance with GAAP.

Total Net Leverage Ratio” means, with respect to any Test Period, the ratio of (a) Consolidated Total Net Indebtedness as of the last day of such Test Period to (b) Consolidated EBITDA for such Test Period.

Transaction Expenses” means any fees or expenses incurred or paid by the Permitted Investors, Clearwater, any direct or indirect parent company of the Borrower, the Borrower or any of its (or their) Subsidiaries in connection with the Transactions (including payments to officers, employees and directors as change of control payments, severance payments, special or retention bonuses and charges for repurchase or rollover of, or modifications to, stock options and/or restricted stock).

Transactions” means, collectively, (a) the IPO, (b) the restructuring in connection with the IPO and (c) the Closing Date Refinancing.

TTM Consolidated EBITDA” means Consolidated EBITDA on a Pro Forma Basis for the most recently ended Test Period.

Type”, when used in reference to any Loan or Borrowing, refers to whether the rate of interest on such Loan, or on the Loans comprising such Borrowing, is determined by reference to the Adjusted LIBO Rate or the Alternate Base Rate.

 

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UK Financial Institutions” means any BRRD Undertaking (as such term is defined under the PRA Rulebook (as amended from time to time) promulgated by the United Kingdom Prudential Regulation Authority) or any person falling within IFPRU 11.6 of the FCA Handbook (as amended from time to time) promulgated by the United Kingdom Financial Conduct Authority, which includes certain credit institutions and investment firms, and certain affiliates of such credit institutions or investment firms.

UK Resolution Authority” means the Bank of England or any other public administrative authority having responsibility for the resolution of any UK Financial Institution.

Unadjusted Benchmark Replacement means the applicable Benchmark Replacement excluding the related Benchmark Replacement Adjustment.

Unrestricted Subsidiary” means any Subsidiary of the Borrower designated by the Board of Directors of the Borrower as an Unrestricted Subsidiary pursuant to Section 5.14 subsequent to the Closing Date.

Unsecured Incremental Test Ratio” has the meaning set forth in Section 2.20(a).

U.S. Special Resolution Regime” has the meaning assigned to it in Section 9.22.

U.S. Tax Compliance Certificate” has the meaning set forth in Section 2.17(e)(ii)(B)(3).

Weighted Average Life to Maturity” means, when applied to any Indebtedness at any date, the number of years obtained by dividing: (i) the sum of the products obtained by multiplying (a) the amount of each then remaining scheduled installment, sinking fund, serial maturity or other required scheduled payments of principal, including payment at final scheduled maturity, in respect thereof, by (b) the number of years (calculated to the nearest one-twelfth) that will elapse between such date and the making of such payment, by (ii) the then outstanding principal amount of such Indebtedness; provided that the effects of any prepayments made on such Indebtedness shall be disregarded in making such calculation.

wholly owned” means with respect to any Person, a subsidiary of such Person all the outstanding Equity Interests of which (other than (x) directors’ qualifying shares and (y) shares issued to foreign nationals to the extent required by applicable law) are owned by such Person and/or by one or more wholly owned subsidiaries of such Person.

Withdrawal Liability” means liability to a Multiemployer Plan as a result of a complete or partial withdrawal from such Multiemployer Plan, as such terms are defined in ERISA.

Write-Down and Conversion Powers” means, (a) with respect to any EEA Resolution Authority, the write-down and conversion powers of such EEA Resolution Authority from time to time under the Bail-In Legislation for the applicable EEA Member Country, which write-down and conversion powers are described in the EU Bail-In Legislation Schedule, and (b) with respect to the United Kingdom, any powers of the applicable Resolution Authority under the Bail-In Legislation to cancel, reduce, modify or change the form of a liability of any UK Financial Institution or any contract or instrument under which that liability arises, to convert all or part of that liability into shares, securities or obligations of that person or any other person, to provide that any such contract or instrument is to have effect as if a right had been exercised under it or to suspend any obligation in respect of that liability or any of the powers under that Bail-In Legislation that are related to or ancillary to any of those powers.

 

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Yield” for any Indebtedness on any date of determination will be determined by the Administrative Agent utilizing (a) if applicable, any “LIBOR floor” applicable to such Indebtedness on such date, (b) the interest margin for such Indebtedness on such date, and (c) the issue price of such Indebtedness (after giving effect to any OID (with OID being equated to interest based on an assumed four-year average life to maturity on a straight-line basis)) or upfront fees (which shall be deemed to constitute like amounts of OID) paid to the market in respect of such Indebtedness but excluding customary arranger, closing, underwriting, commitment, structuring, ticking, unused line, amendment fees and other similar fees not paid generally to all lenders of such Indebtedness.

SECTION 1.02 Classification of Loans and Borrowings. For purposes of this Agreement, Loans may be classified and referred to by Class (e.g., a “Revolving Loan”) or by Type (e.g., a “Eurodollar Loan”) or by Class and Type (e.g., a “Eurodollar Revolving Loan”). Borrowings also may be classified and referred to by Class (e.g., a “Revolving Borrowing”) or by Type (e.g., a “Eurodollar Borrowing”) or by Class and Type (e.g., a “Eurodollar Revolving Borrowing”).

SECTION 1.03 Terms Generally. The definitions of terms herein shall apply equally to the singular and plural forms of the terms defined. Whenever the context may require, any pronoun shall include the corresponding masculine, feminine and neuter forms. The words “include”, “includes” and “including” shall be deemed to be followed by the phrase “without limitation.” The word “will” shall be construed to have the same meaning and effect as the word “shall.” Unless the context requires otherwise (a) any definition of or reference to any agreement, instrument or other document herein shall be construed as referring to such agreement, instrument or other document as from time to time amended, supplemented, amended and restated or otherwise modified (subject to any restrictions on such amendments, supplements, amendment and restatements or modifications set forth herein); provided that each reference to the Tax Receivable Agreement or the Operating Agreement shall be construed to refer to such agreement as in effect on the Closing Date, (b) any reference herein to any Person shall be construed to include such Person’s successors and assigns, (c) the words “herein”, “hereof” and “hereunder”, and words of similar import, shall be construed to refer to this Agreement in its entirety and not to any particular provision hereof, (d) all references herein to Articles, Sections, Exhibits and Schedules shall be construed to refer to Articles and Sections of, and Exhibits and Schedules to, this Agreement (e) any reference to any law, rule or regulation herein shall, unless otherwise specified, refer to such law, rule or regulation as amended, modified or supplemented from time to time, (f) the words “asset” and “property” shall be construed to have the same meaning and effect and to refer to any and all tangible and intangible assets and properties, including cash, securities, accounts and contract rights and (g) all references to “in the ordinary course of business” of Holdings, the Borrower or any Subsidiary thereof means (i) in the ordinary course of business of, or in furtherance of an objective that is in the ordinary course of business of Holdings, the Borrower or such Subsidiary, as applicable, (ii) customary and usual in the industry or industries of Holdings, the Borrower and its Subsidiaries in any jurisdiction in which Holdings, the Borrower or any Subsidiary does business, as applicable, or (iii) generally consistent with the past or current practice of Holdings, the Borrower or such Subsidiary, as applicable, or any similarly situated businesses is any jurisdiction in which Holdings, the Borrower or any Subsidiary does business, as applicable.

 

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SECTION 1.04 Accounting Terms; GAAP. Except as otherwise expressly provided herein, all terms of an accounting or financial nature shall be construed in accordance with GAAP as in effect from time to time, provided that if the Borrower notifies the Administrative Agent that the Borrower requests an amendment to any provision (including any definition) hereof to eliminate the effect of any change occurring after the date hereof in GAAP or in the application thereof on the operation of such provision (or if the Administrative Agent notifies the Borrower that the Required Lenders request an amendment to any provision (including any definition) hereof for such purpose), regardless of whether any such notice is given before or after such change in GAAP or in the application thereof, then such provision shall be interpreted on the basis of GAAP as in effect and applied immediately before such change shall have become effective until such notice shall have been withdrawn or such provision amended in accordance herewith. In addition, notwithstanding any other provision contained herein, (i) the definitions set forth in the Loan Documents and any financial calculations required by the Loan Documents shall be computed to exclude any change to lease accounting rules from those in effect pursuant to ASC Topic 842 (Leases) and other related lease accounting guidance as in effect on the Closing Date and (ii) all terms of an accounting or financial nature used herein shall be construed, and all computations of amounts and ratios referred to herein shall be made, without giving effect to (A) any election under ASC Topic 825 to value any Indebtedness or other liabilities of Holdings, the Borrower or any Subsidiary at “fair value”, as defined therein, (B) the consolidation of variable interest entities in accordance with ASC Topic 810 and (C) the portion of any Indebtedness attributable to any non-wholly owned Subsidiary that corresponds to the non-controlling interest share owned by third parties in such non-wholly owned Subsidiary.

SECTION 1.05 [Reserved].

SECTION 1.06 Available Amount Transactions. If more than one action occurs on any given date the permissibility of the taking of which is determined hereunder by reference to the amount of the Available Amount immediately prior to the taking of such action, the permissibility of the taking of each such action shall be determined independently and in no event may any two or more such actions be treated as occurring simultaneously.

SECTION 1.07 Pro Forma Calculations.

(a) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein, financial ratios and tests, including the First Lien Net Leverage Ratio, Secured Net Leverage Ratio and the Total Net Leverage Ratio, and compliance with covenants determined by reference to Consolidated EBITDA or Total Assets, shall be calculated in the manner prescribed by this Section 1.07; provided, that notwithstanding anything to the contrary in clauses (b), (c), (d) or (f) of this Section 1.07, (A) when calculating any such ratio or test for purposes of Section 6.12 (other than for the purpose of determining Pro Forma Compliance with Section 6.12), the events described in this Section 1.07 that occurred subsequent to the end of the applicable Test Period shall not be given Pro Forma Effect and cash and Permitted Investments included on the consolidated balance sheet of Holdings, the Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries as of the date of the event for which the

 

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calculation of any such ratio is made shall be taken into account in lieu of cash or Permitted Investments as of the last day of the relevant Test Period and (B) when calculating any such ratio or test for purposes of the incurrence of any Indebtedness, cash and Permitted Investments resulting from the incurrence of any such Indebtedness shall be excluded from the pro forma calculation of any applicable ratio or test. In addition, whenever a financial ratio or test is to be calculated on a Pro Forma Basis, the reference to the “Test Period” for purposes of calculating such financial ratio or test shall be deemed to be a reference to, and shall be based on, the most recently ended Test Period for which financial statements of the Borrower have been delivered prior to the Closing Date or pursuant to Section 5.01(a) or Section 5.01(b) (it being understood that for purposes of determining Pro Forma Compliance with Section 6.12, if no Test Period with an applicable level cited in Section 6.12 has passed, the applicable level shall be the level for the first Test Period cited in Section 6.12 with an indicated level).

(b) For purposes of calculating any financial ratio or test or compliance with any covenant determined by reference to Consolidated EBITDA or Total Assets, Specified Transactions (with any incurrence or repayment of any Indebtedness in connection therewith to be subject to clause (d) of this Section 1.07) that (i) have been made during the applicable Test Period or (ii) if applicable as described in clause (a) above, have been made subsequent to such Test Period and prior to or substantially concurrently with the event for which the calculation of any such ratio is made shall be calculated on a Pro Forma Basis assuming that all such Specified Transactions (and any increase or decrease in Consolidated EBITDA, Total Assets and the component financial definitions used therein attributable to any Specified Transaction) had occurred on the first day of the applicable Test Period (or, in the case of Total Assets, on the last day of the applicable Test Period). If since the beginning of any applicable Test Period any Person that subsequently became a Restricted Subsidiary or was merged, amalgamated or consolidated with or into the Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries since the beginning of such Test Period shall have made any Specified Transaction that would have required adjustment pursuant to this Section 1.07, then such financial ratio or test (or Total Assets) shall be calculated to give Pro Forma Effect thereto in accordance with this Section 1.07.

(c) Whenever Pro Forma Effect is to be given to a Specified Transaction, the pro forma calculations shall be made in good faith by a Financial Officer of the Borrower and, in the case of any “Test Period” determined by reference to financial statements of the Borrower most recently delivered prior to the Closing Date or pursuant to Section 5.01(a) or Section 5.01(b), and may include, for the avoidance of doubt, the amount of “run-rate” cost savings, operating expense reductions and synergies resulting from or relating to, any Specified Transaction (including the Transactions) to the extent permitted by the definition of “Consolidated EBITDA.”

(d) In the event that the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary incurs (including by assumption or guarantees) or repays (including by repurchase, redemption, repayment, retirement, discharge, defeasance or extinguishment) any Indebtedness (in each case, other than Indebtedness incurred or repaid (other than any repayment from the proceeds of other Indebtedness) under any revolving credit facility unless such Indebtedness has been permanently repaid and not replaced) subsequent to the end of the applicable Test Period and prior to or simultaneously with the event for which the calculation of any such ratio is made, then such financial ratio or test shall be calculated giving Pro Forma Effect to such incurrence, assumption, guarantee, repurchase, redemption, repayment, retirement, discharge, defeasance or extinguishment of Indebtedness, or such issuance, repurchase or redemption of Disqualified Stock, in each case to the extent required, as if the same had occurred on the last day of the applicable Test Period.

 

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(e) [Reserved].

(f) As relates to any action being taken solely in connection with a Limited Condition Transaction, for purposes of:

(i) determining compliance with any provision of this Agreement (other than the Financial Covenant) which requires the calculation of any financial ratio or test, including First Lien Net Leverage Ratio, Secured Net Leverage Ratio and Total Net Leverage Ratio, or

(ii) testing availability under baskets set forth in this Agreement (including baskets determined by reference to Consolidated EBITDA or Total Assets),

in each case, at the option of the Borrower (the Borrower’s election to exercise such option in connection with any Limited Condition Transaction, an “LCT Election”), the date of determination of whether any such action is permitted hereunder shall be deemed to be the date the definitive agreements for such Limited Condition Transaction are entered into (the “LCT Test Date”), and if, after giving Pro Forma Effect to the Limited Condition Transaction (and the other transactions to be entered into in connection therewith, including any incurrence of Indebtedness and the use of proceeds thereof, as if they had occurred on the first day of the most recent Test Period ending prior to the LCT Test Date (except with respect to any incurrence or repayment of Indebtedness for purposes of the calculation of any leverage-based test or ratio, which shall in each case be treated as if they had occurred on the last day of such Test Period)), the Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries would have been permitted to take such action on the relevant LCT Test Date in compliance with such ratio, test or basket, such ratio, test or basket shall be deemed to have been complied with; provided that if financial statements for one or more subsequent fiscal periods shall have become available, the Borrower may elect, in its sole discretion, to redetermine all such ratios, tests or baskets on the basis of such financial statements, in which case, such date of redetermination shall thereafter be deemed to be the applicable LCT Test Date. For the avoidance of doubt, if the Borrower has made an LCT Election and any of the ratios, tests or baskets for which compliance was determined or tested as of the LCT Test Date would have failed to have been complied with as a result of fluctuations in any such ratio, test or basket, including due to fluctuations in Consolidated EBITDA or Total Assets of the Borrower or the Person subject to such Limited Condition Transaction, at or prior to the consummation of the relevant transaction or action, such baskets, tests or ratios will not be deemed to have failed to have been complied with as a result of such fluctuations. If the Borrower has made an LCT Election for any Limited Condition Transaction, then in connection with any calculation of any ratio, test or basket availability with respect to the incurrence of Indebtedness or Liens, the making of Restricted Payments, the making of any Investment, mergers, the conveyance, lease or other transfer of all or substantially all of the assets of the Borrower, the prepayment, redemption, purchase, defeasance or other satisfaction of Indebtedness, or the designation of an Unrestricted Subsidiary (each, a “Subsequent Transaction”) following the relevant LCT Test Date and prior to the earlier of the date on which such Limited Condition Transaction is consummated or the date that the definitive

 

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agreement or irrevocable notice for such Limited Condition Transaction is terminated or expires without consummation of such Limited Condition Transaction, for purposes of determining whether such Subsequent Transaction is permitted under this Agreement, any such ratio, test or basket shall be required to be satisfied (i) on a Pro Forma Basis assuming such Limited Condition Transaction and other transactions in connection therewith (including any incurrence of Indebtedness and the use of proceeds thereof) have been consummated and (ii) assuming such Limited Condition Transaction and other transactions in connection therewith (including any incurrence of Indebtedness and the use of proceeds thereof) have not been consummated.

SECTION 1.08 Interest Rates; LIBOR Notification. The interest rate on a Loan denominated in dollars may be derived from an interest rate benchmark that is, or may in the future become, the subject of regulatory reform. Regulators have signaled the need to use alternative benchmark reference rates for some of these interest rate benchmarks and, as a result, such interest rate benchmarks may cease to comply with applicable laws and regulations, may be permanently discontinued, and/or the basis on which they are calculated may change. The London interbank offered rate (“LIBOR”) is intended to represent the rate at which contributing banks may obtain short-term borrowings from each other in the London interbank market. On March 5, 2021, the U.K. Financial Conduct Authority (“FCA”) publicly announced that: (a) immediately after December 31, 2021, publication of all seven euro LIBOR settings, all seven Swiss Franc LIBOR settings, the spot next, 1-week, 2-month and 12-month Japanese Yen LIBOR settings, the overnight, 1-week, 2-month and 12-month British Pound Sterling LIBOR settings, and the 1-week and 2-month U.S. Dollar LIBOR settings will permanently cease; immediately after June 30, 2023, publication of the overnight and 12-month U.S. Dollar LIBOR settings will permanently cease; immediately after December 31, 2021, the 1-month, 3-month and 6-month Japanese Yen LIBOR settings and the 1-month, 3-month and 6-month British Pound Sterling LIBOR settings will cease to be provided or, subject to consultation by the FCA, be provided on a changed methodology (or “synthetic”) basis and no longer be representative of the underlying market and economic reality they are intended to measure and that representativeness will not be restored; and immediately after June 30, 2023, the 1-month, 3-month and 6-month U.S. Dollar LIBOR settings will cease to be provided or, subject to the FCA’s consideration of the case, be provided on a synthetic basis and no longer be representative of the underlying market and economic reality they are intended to measure and that representativeness will not be restored. There is no assurance that dates announced by the FCA will not change or that the administrator of LIBOR and/or regulators will not take further action that could impact the availability, composition, or characteristics of LIBOR or the currencies and/or tenors for which LIBOR is published. Each party to this agreement should consult its own advisors to stay informed of any such developments. Public and private sector industry initiatives are currently underway to identify new or alternative reference rates to be used in place of LIBOR. Upon the occurrence of a Benchmark Transition Event, a Term SOFR Transition Event or an Early Opt-in Election, Sections 2.14(b) and (c) provide a mechanism for determining an alternative rate of interest. The Administrative Agent will promptly notify the Borrower, pursuant to Section 2.14(e), of any change to the reference rate upon which the interest rate on Eurodollar Borrowings is based. However, the Administrative Agent does not warrant or accept any responsibility for, and shall not have any liability with respect to, the administration, submission, performance or any other matter related to LIBOR or other rates in the definition of “LIBO Rate” or with respect to any alternative or successor rate thereto, or replacement rate thereof (including, without limitation, (i) any such alternative, successor or replacement rate implemented pursuant to Section 2.14(b) or (c), whether upon the occurrence of a Benchmark Transition Event,

 

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a Term SOFR Transition Event or an Early Opt-in Election, and (ii) the implementation of any Benchmark Replacement Conforming Changes pursuant to Section 2.14(d)), including without limitation, whether the composition or characteristics of any such alternative, successor or replacement reference rate will be similar to, or produce the same value or economic equivalence of the LIBO Rate or have the same volume or liquidity as did the London interbank offered rate prior to its discontinuance or unavailability. The Administrative Agent and its affiliates and/or other related entities may engage in transactions that affect the calculation of any alternative, successor or alternative rate (including any Benchmark Replacement) and/or any relevant adjustments thereto, in each case, in a manner adverse to the Borrower. The Administrative Agent may select information sources or services in its reasonable discretion to ascertain the Adjusted LIBO Rate, any component thereof, or rates referenced in the definition thereof, in each case pursuant to the terms of this Agreement, and shall have no liability to the Borrower, any Lender or any other person or entity for damages of any kind, including direct or indirect, special, punitive, incidental or consequential damages, costs, losses or expenses (whether in tort, contract or otherwise and whether at law or in equity), for any error or calculation of any such rate (or component thereof) provided by any such information source or service.

SECTION 1.09 Divisions. For all purposes under the Loan Documents, in connection with any division or plan of division under Delaware law (or any comparable event under a different jurisdiction’s laws): (a) if any asset, right, obligation or liability of any Person becomes the asset, right, obligation or liability of a different Person, then it shall be deemed to have been transferred from the original Person to the subsequent Person, and (b) if any new Person comes into existence, such new Person shall be deemed to have been organized and acquired on the first date of its existence by the holders of its Equity Interests at such time.

ARTICLE II

The Credits

SECTION 2.01 Commitments. Holdings, the Borrower and the Lenders acknowledge and agree that (a) each Lender with a Revolving Commitment severally and not jointly agrees to make Revolving Loans in dollars to the Borrower following the Closing Date and from time to time during the Revolving Availability Period in an aggregate principal amount that will not result in such Lender’s Revolving Exposure (together with the LC Exposure of such Lender and obligations of such Lender with respect to outstanding Swingline Loans) exceeding such Lender’s Revolving Commitment (and, in the case of any Swingline Lender or any Issuing Bank unless waived by such Person in its sole discretion, that will not result in the aggregate amount of the Revolving Loans and Swingline Loans funded by such Person, when aggregated with the face amount of all Letters of Credit issued by such Person, exceeding the amount of such Person’s Revolving Commitment), and (b) each Lender agrees to make Closing Date Term Loans to the Borrower on the Closing Date in an aggregate principal amount such that, immediately after giving effect thereto, the portion of the Closing Date Term Loan held by each Lender is equal to its Initial Term Loan Commitment. The Borrower shall designate in the relevant Borrowing Request whether each Borrowing will be maintained as a Eurodollar Loan or an ABR Loan and, if such Borrowing is to be a Eurodollar Borrowing, the Interest Period with respect thereto. Amounts repaid or prepaid in respect of Initial Term Loans may not be reborrowed.

 

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SECTION 2.02 Loans and Borrowings.

(a) Each Loan (other than a Swingline Loan) shall be made as part of a Borrowing consisting of Loans of the same Class and Type made by the Lenders ratably in accordance with their respective Commitments of the applicable Class. The failure of any Lender to make any Loan required to be made by it shall not relieve any other Lender of its obligations hereunder; provided that the Commitments of the Lenders are several and no Lender shall be responsible for any other Lender’s failure to make Loans as required.

(b) Subject to Section 2.14, each Borrowing shall be comprised entirely of ABR Loans or Eurodollar Loans as the Borrower may request in accordance herewith.

(c) At the commencement of each Interest Period for any Eurodollar Borrowing, such Borrowing shall be in an aggregate amount that is an integral multiple of $100,000 and not less than $500,000. At the time that each ABR Borrowing is made, such Borrowing shall be in an aggregate amount that is an integral multiple of $100,000 and not less than $100,000. Borrowings of more than one Type and Class may be outstanding at the same time. There shall not at any time be more than a total of 10 Eurodollar Borrowings outstanding. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein, (1) an ABR Revolving Borrowing may be in an aggregate amount that is equal to the entire unused balance of the aggregate Revolving Commitments and (2) subject to Section 2.04(a), a Swingline Loan may be in an aggregate amount (i) that is equal to the entire unused balance of the aggregate Revolving Commitments or (ii) that is required to finance the reimbursement of an LC Disbursement as contemplated by Section 2.05(e).

(d) Notwithstanding any other provision of this Agreement, the Borrower shall not be entitled to request, or to elect to convert or continue, any Borrowing if the Interest Period requested with respect thereto would end after the Revolving Maturity Date or the Initial Term Loan Maturity Date, as applicable.

SECTION 2.03 Requests for Borrowings. To request a Revolving Borrowing or Term Loan Borrowing, the Borrower shall notify the Applicable Agent of such request in writing (a) in the case of a Eurodollar Borrowing, not later than 12:00 noon, New York City time, three (3) Business Days before the date of the proposed Borrowing (or, in the case of the Borrowing of the Closing Date Term Loans, one (1) Business Day before the date of the proposed Borrowing) or (b) in the case of an ABR Borrowing, not later than 12:00 noon, New York City time, on the date of the proposed Borrowing; provided that any such notice of an ABR Revolving Borrowing to finance the reimbursement of an LC Disbursement as contemplated by Section 2.05(e) must be given not later than 10:00 a.m., New York City time, on the date of the proposed Borrowing. Each written Borrowing Request shall be signed by a Responsible Officer of the Borrower and irrevocable. Each such written Borrowing Request shall specify the following information in compliance with Section 2.02:

(i) whether the requested Borrowing is to be a Revolving Borrowing or a Term Loan Borrowing,

(ii) the aggregate amount of such Borrowing,

 

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(iii) the date of such Borrowing, which shall be a Business Day,

(iv) whether such Borrowing is to be an ABR Borrowing or a Eurodollar Borrowing,

(v) in the case of a Eurodollar Borrowing, the initial Interest Period to be applicable thereto, which shall be a period contemplated by the definition of the term “Interest Period”, and

(vi) the location and number of the Borrower’s account to which funds are to be disbursed, which shall comply with the requirements of Section 2.06.

If no election as to the Type of Borrowing is specified, then the requested Borrowing shall be an ABR Borrowing. If no Interest Period is specified with respect to any requested Eurodollar Borrowing, then the Borrower shall be deemed to have selected an Interest Period of one month’s duration. Promptly following receipt of a Borrowing Request in accordance with this Section 2.03, the Applicable Agent shall advise each Lender of the details thereof and of the amount of such Lender’s Loan to be made as part of the requested Borrowing.

SECTION 2.04 Swingline Loans.

(a) Subject to the terms and conditions set forth herein, the Swingline Lender agrees to make Swingline Loans to the Borrower from time to time during the Revolving Availability Period, in an aggregate principal amount at any time outstanding that will not result in (i) the aggregate principal amount of outstanding Swingline Loans exceeding $10,000,000 (the “Swingline Sublimit”), (ii) the aggregate Revolving Exposures exceeding the aggregate Revolving Commitments or (iii) unless otherwise consented by the Swingline Lender in its sole discretion, the aggregate principal amount of outstanding Swingline Loans and Revolving Loans of such Swingline Lender, when aggregated with the LC Exposure of such Swingline Lender, exceeding the amount of such Person’s Revolving Commitment; provided that the Swingline Lender shall not be required to make a Swingline Loan to refinance an outstanding Swingline Loan. Within the foregoing limits and subject to the terms and conditions set forth herein, the Borrower may borrow, prepay and reborrow Swingline Loans.

(b) To request a Swingline Loan, the Borrower shall notify the Administrative Agent of such request in writing, not later than 2:00 p.m., New York City time, on the day of a proposed Swingline Loan. Each such notice shall be irrevocable and shall specify the requested date (which shall be a Business Day) and amount of the requested Swingline Loan. The Administrative Agent will promptly advise the Swingline Lender of any such notice received from the Borrower. The Swingline Lender shall make each Swingline Loan available to the Borrower by means of a credit to the general deposit account of the Borrower maintained with the Swingline Lender (or, in the case of a Swingline Loan made to finance the reimbursement of an LC Disbursement as provided in Section 2.05(e), by remittance to the applicable Issuing Bank) promptly on the requested date of such Swingline Loan.

 

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(c) The Swingline Lender may, and shall at least once every thirty (30) days, by written notice given to the Revolver Agent not later than 12:00 noon, New York City time, on any Business Day require the Revolving Lenders to acquire participations on such Business Day in all or a portion of the Swingline Loans outstanding. Such notice shall specify the aggregate amount of Swingline Loans in which Revolving Lenders will participate. Promptly upon receipt of such notice, the Revolver Agent will give notice thereof to each Revolving Lender, specifying in such notice such Lender’s Applicable Percentage of such Swingline Loan or Swingline Loans. Each Revolving Lender hereby absolutely and unconditionally agrees, upon receipt of notice as provided above, to pay to the Revolver Agent, for the account of the Swingline Lender, such Lender’s Applicable Percentage of such Swingline Loan or Swingline Loans. Each Revolving Lender acknowledges and agrees that its obligation to acquire participations in Swingline Loans pursuant to this paragraph is absolute and unconditional and shall not be affected by any circumstance whatsoever, including the occurrence and continuance of a Default or reduction or termination of the Revolving Commitments, and that each such payment shall be made without any offset, abatement, withholding or reduction whatsoever. Each Revolving Lender shall comply with its obligation under this paragraph by wire transfer of immediately available funds, in the same manner as provided in Section 2.06 with respect to Loans made by such Lender (and Section 2.06 shall apply, mutatis mutandis, to the payment obligations of the Revolving Lenders), and the Revolver Agent shall promptly pay to the Swingline Lender the amounts so received by it from the Revolving Lenders. The Revolver Agent shall notify the Borrower of any participations in any Swingline Loan acquired pursuant to this paragraph, and thereafter payments in respect of such Swingline Loan shall be made to the Revolver Agent and not to the Swingline Lender. Any amounts received by the Swingline Lender from the Borrower (or other party on behalf of the Borrower) in respect of a Swingline Loan after receipt by the Swingline Lender of the proceeds of a sale of participations therein shall be promptly remitted to the Revolver Agent, any such amounts received by the Revolver Agent shall be promptly remitted by the Revolver Agent to the Revolving Lenders that shall have made their payments pursuant to this paragraph and to the Swingline Lender, as their interests may appear; provided that any such payment so remitted shall be repaid to the Swingline Lender or to the Revolver Agent, as applicable, if and to the extent such payment is required to be refunded to the Borrower for any reason. The purchase of participations in a Swingline Loan pursuant to this paragraph shall not relieve the Borrower of any default in the payment thereof.

(d) Any Swingline Lender may be replaced at any time by written agreement among the Borrower, the Administrative Agent, the replaced Swingline Lender and the successor Swingline Lender. The Administrative Agent shall notify the Lenders of any such replacement of a Swingline Lender. At the time any such replacement shall become effective, the Borrower shall pay all unpaid interest accrued for the account of the replaced Swingline Lender pursuant to Section 2.13(a). From and after the effective date of any such replacement, (x) the successor Swingline Lender shall have all the rights and obligations of the replaced Swingline Lender under this Agreement with respect to Swingline Loans made thereafter and (y) references herein to the term “Swingline Lender” shall be deemed to refer to such successor or to any previous Swingline Lender, or to such successor and all previous Swingline Lenders, as the context shall require. After the replacement of a Swingline Lender hereunder, the replaced Swingline Lender shall remain a party hereto and shall continue to have all the rights and obligations of a Swingline Lender under this Agreement with respect to Swingline Loans made by it prior to its replacement, but shall not be required to make additional Swingline Loans.

 

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(e) Subject to the appointment and acceptance of a successor Swingline Lender, any Swingline Lender may resign as a Swingline Lender at any time upon thirty days’ prior written notice to the Administrative Agent, the Borrower and the Lenders, in which case, such Swingline Lender shall be replaced in accordance with Section 2.04(d) above.

SECTION 2.05 Letters of Credit.

(a) General. Subject to the terms and conditions set forth herein, the Borrower may request the issuance of Letters of Credit for its own account (or for the account of any of its Restricted Subsidiaries so long as the Borrower is a co-applicant), in a form reasonably acceptable to the Revolver Agent and the applicable Issuing Bank, at any time and from time to time during the Revolving Availability Period. In the event of any inconsistency between the terms and conditions of this Agreement and the terms and conditions of any form of letter of credit application or other agreement submitted by the Borrower to, or entered into by the Borrower with, the applicable Issuing Bank relating to any Letter of Credit, the terms and conditions of this Agreement shall control.

(b) Notice of Issuance, Amendment, Renewal, Extension; Certain Conditions. To request the issuance of a Letter of Credit (or the amendment, renewal or extension of an outstanding Letter of Credit), the Borrower shall hand deliver or telecopy (or transmit by electronic communication, including using Approved Electronic Platforms, if arrangements for doing so have been approved by the applicable Issuing Bank) to the applicable Issuing Bank and the Revolver Agent (at least three (3) Business Days in advance of the requested date of issuance, amendment, renewal or extension) a notice requesting the issuance of a Letter of Credit, or identifying the Letter of Credit to be amended, renewed or extended, and specifying the date of issuance, amendment, renewal or extension (which shall be a Business Day), the date on which such Letter of Credit is to expire (which shall comply with paragraph (c) of this Section 2.05), the amount of such Letter of Credit, the name and address of the beneficiary thereof and such other information as shall be necessary to prepare, amend, renew or extend such Letter of Credit. If requested by the applicable Issuing Bank, the Borrower also shall submit a letter of credit application on such Issuing Bank’s standard form in connection with any request for a Letter of Credit. A Letter of Credit shall be issued, amended, renewed or extended only if (and upon issuance, amendment, renewal or extension of each Letter of Credit the Borrower shall be deemed to represent and warrant that), after giving effect to such issuance, amendment, renewal or extension, (i) the LC Exposure shall not exceed $10,000,000 (the “Letter of Credit Sublimit”), (ii) no Revolving Lender’s Revolving Exposure (together with such Revolving Lender’s LC Exposure and the obligations of such Revolving Lender with respect to outstanding Swingline Loans) shall exceed such Revolving Lender’s Revolving Commitment, (iii) unless otherwise consented by the applicable Issuing Bank in its sole discretion, the aggregate principal amount of outstanding Swingline Loans and Revolving Loans of such Issuing Bank, when aggregated with the LC Exposure of such Issuing Bank, shall not exceed the amount of such Issuing Bank’s Revolving Commitment and (iv) unless otherwise consented by such Issuing Bank in its sole discretion, the LC Exposure attributable to Letters of Credit issued by such Issuing Bank shall not exceed such Issuing Bank’s Issuing Bank Sublimit.

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(A) any order, judgment or decree of any Governmental Authority or arbitrator shall by its terms purport to enjoin or restrain such Issuing Bank from issuing such Letter of Credit, or any law applicable to such Issuing Bank shall prohibit, or require that such Issuing Bank refrain from, the issuance of letters of credit generally or such Letter of Credit in particular or shall impose upon such Issuing Bank with respect to such Letter of Credit any restriction, reserve or capital requirement (for which such Issuing Bank is not otherwise compensated hereunder) not in effect on the Closing Date, or shall impose upon such Issuing Bank any unreimbursed loss, cost or expense that was not applicable on the Closing Date and that such Issuing Bank in good faith deems material to it;

(B) the issuance of such Letter of Credit would violate one or more policies of such Issuing Bank applicable to letters of credit generally; or

(C) the Letter of Credit is not a standby letter of credit.

(c) Expiration Date. Each Letter of Credit shall expire at or prior to the close of business on the earlier of (i) the date that is 12 months after the date of the issuance of such Letter of Credit (or, in the case of any renewal or extension thereof, 12 months after such renewal or extension) and (ii) the date that is five (5) Business Days prior to the Revolving Maturity Date (except to the extent cash collateralized or backstopped pursuant to arrangements reasonably acceptable to the applicable Issuing Bank and the Revolver Agent). Any Letter of Credit may provide for automatic extension or renewal thereof for an additional period of up to 12 months (but in no event shall such period renew or extend beyond the date referred to in clause (ii)).

(d) Participations. By the issuance of a Letter of Credit (or an amendment to a Letter of Credit increasing the amount thereof) and without any further action on the part of the applicable Issuing Bank or the Lenders, the applicable Issuing Bank hereby grants to each Revolving Lender, and each Revolving Lender hereby acquires from such Issuing Bank, a participation in any such Letter of Credit equal to such Lender’s Applicable Percentage of the aggregate amount available to be drawn under any such Letter of Credit. In consideration and in furtherance of the foregoing, each Revolving Lender hereby absolutely and unconditionally agrees to pay to the Revolver Agent, for the account of the applicable Issuing Bank, such Revolving Lender’s Applicable Percentage of each LC Disbursement made by such Issuing Bank and not reimbursed by the Borrower on the date due as provided in paragraph (e) of this Section 2.05, or of any reimbursement payment required to be refunded to the Borrower for any reason. Each Revolving Lender acknowledges and agrees that its obligation to assume and acquire participations pursuant to this paragraph in respect of Letters of Credit is absolute and unconditional and shall not be affected by any circumstance whatsoever, including any amendment, renewal or extension of any Letter of Credit or the occurrence and continuance of a Default or reduction or termination of the Commitments, and that each such payment shall be made without any offset, abatement, withholding or reduction whatsoever.

(e) Reimbursement. If any Issuing Bank shall make any LC Disbursement in respect of a Letter of Credit, the Borrower shall reimburse such LC Disbursement by paying to the Revolver Agent an amount equal to such LC Disbursement not later than 12:00 noon, New York City time, on the Business Day immediately following the day that the Borrower receives notice of such LC Disbursement; provided that, if such LC Disbursement is not less than $100,000, the Borrower may, subject to the conditions to borrowing set forth herein, request (and,

 

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if the Borrower fails to reimburse such LC Disbursement when due, the Borrower shall be deemed to have requested) in accordance with Section 2.03 or 2.04 that such LC Disbursement be financed with an ABR Revolving Borrowing or Swingline Loan in an equivalent amount and, to the extent so financed, the Borrower’s obligation to make such payment shall be discharged and replaced by the resulting ABR Revolving Borrowing or Swingline Loan (and the time for reimbursement of such LC Disbursement shall automatically be extended to the Business Day following such request or deemed request). If the Borrower fails to make such payment when due, the Revolver Agent shall notify each Revolving Lender of the applicable LC Disbursement, the payment then due from the Borrower in respect thereof and such Revolving Lender’s Applicable Percentage thereof. Promptly following receipt of such notice, each Revolving Lender shall pay to the Revolver Agent its Applicable Percentage of the payment then due from the Borrower, in the same manner as provided in Section 2.06 with respect to Loans made by such Revolving Lender (and Section 2.06 shall apply, mutatis mutandis, to the payment obligations of the Revolving Lenders), and the Revolver Agent shall promptly pay to the applicable Issuing Bank the amounts so received by it from the Revolving Lenders. Promptly following receipt by the Revolver Agent of any payment from the Borrower pursuant to this paragraph, the Revolver Agent shall distribute such payment to the applicable Issuing Bank or, to the extent that Revolving Lenders have made payments pursuant to this paragraph to reimburse such Issuing Bank, then to such Revolving Lenders and such Issuing Bank as their interests may appear. Any payment made by a Revolving Lender pursuant to this paragraph to reimburse the applicable Issuing Bank for any LC Disbursement (other than the funding of ABR Revolving Loans or a Swingline Loan as contemplated above) shall not constitute a Loan and shall not relieve the Borrower of its obligation to reimburse such LC Disbursement.

(f) Obligations Absolute. The Borrower’s obligation to reimburse LC Disbursements as provided in paragraph (e) of this Section 2.05 shall be absolute, unconditional and irrevocable, and shall be performed strictly in accordance with the terms of this Agreement under any and all circumstances whatsoever and irrespective of (i) any lack of validity or enforceability of any Letter of Credit or this Agreement, or any term or provision therein, (ii) any draft or other document presented under a Letter of Credit proving to be forged, fraudulent or invalid in any respect or any statement therein being untrue or inaccurate in any respect, (iii) payment by the applicable Issuing Bank under a Letter of Credit against presentation of a draft or other document that does not comply with the terms of such Letter of Credit, or (iv) any other event or circumstance whatsoever, whether or not similar to any of the foregoing, that might, but for the provisions of this Section 2.05, constitute a legal or equitable discharge of, or provide a right of setoff against, the Borrower’s obligations hereunder. Neither the Revolver Agent, Administrative Agent, the Lenders nor the Issuing Banks, nor any of their Related Parties, shall have any liability or responsibility by reason of or in connection with the issuance or transfer of any Letter of Credit or any payment or failure to make any payment thereunder (irrespective of any of the circumstances referred to in the preceding sentence), or any error, omission, interruption, loss or delay in transmission or delivery of any draft, notice or other communication under or relating to any Letter of Credit (including any document required to make a drawing thereunder), any error in interpretation of technical terms or any consequence arising from causes beyond the control of the Issuing Bank; provided that the foregoing shall not be construed to excuse any Issuing Bank from liability to the Borrower to the extent of any direct damages (as opposed to consequential or punitive damages, claims in respect of which are hereby waived by the Borrower to the extent permitted by applicable law) suffered by the Borrower that are caused

 

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by such Issuing Bank’s failure to exercise care when determining whether drafts and other documents presented under a Letter of Credit comply with the terms thereof. The parties hereto expressly agree that, in the absence of gross negligence or willful misconduct on the part of any Issuing Bank (as finally determined by a court of competent jurisdiction), such Issuing Bank shall be deemed to have exercised care in each such determination. In furtherance of the foregoing and without limiting the generality thereof, the parties agree that, with respect to documents presented that appear on their face to be in substantial compliance with the terms of a Letter of Credit, any Issuing Bank may, in its sole discretion, either accept and make payment upon such documents without responsibility for further investigation, regardless of any notice or information to the contrary, or refuse to accept and make payment upon such documents if such documents are not in strict compliance with the terms of such Letter of Credit.

(g) Disbursement Procedures. The applicable Issuing Bank shall, promptly following its receipt thereof, examine all documents purporting to represent a demand for payment under a Letter of Credit. The applicable Issuing Bank shall promptly notify the Revolver Agent and the Borrower in writing of such demand for payment and whether such Issuing Bank has made or will make an LC Disbursement thereunder; provided that any failure to give or delay in giving such notice shall not relieve the Borrower of its obligation to reimburse such Issuing Bank and the Revolving Lenders with respect to any such LC Disbursement in accordance with paragraph (e) of this Section 2.05.

(h) Interim Interest. If any Issuing Bank shall make any LC Disbursement, then, unless the Borrower shall reimburse such LC Disbursement in full on the date such LC Disbursement is made, the unpaid amount thereof shall bear interest, for each day from and including the date such LC Disbursement is made to but excluding the date that the Borrower reimburses such LC Disbursement, at the rate per annum then applicable to ABR Revolving Loans; provided that, if the Borrower fails to reimburse such LC Disbursement when due pursuant to paragraph (e) of this Section 2.05, then Section 2.13(c) shall apply. Interest accrued pursuant to this paragraph shall be for the account of the Issuing Bank, except that interest accrued on and after the date of payment by any Revolving Lender pursuant to paragraph (e) of this Section 2.05 to reimburse such Issuing Bank shall be for the account of such Revolving Lender to the extent of such payment.

(i) Replacement or Resignation of the Issuing Banks. Any Issuing Bank may be replaced at any time by written agreement among the Borrower, the Revolver Agent and the applicable successor Issuing Bank. Any Issuing Bank may resign as an Issuing Bank at any time upon thirty days’ prior written notice to the Revolver Agent and the Borrower. The Revolver Agent shall notify the Lenders of any such replacement or resignation of the applicable Issuing Bank. At the time any such replacement or resignation shall become effective, the Borrower shall pay all unpaid fees accrued for the account of the replaced or retiring Issuing Bank pursuant to Section 2.12(b). From and after the effective date of any such replacement, (i) the applicable successor Issuing Bank shall have all the rights and obligations of the applicable Issuing Bank under this Agreement with respect to Letters of Credit to be issued thereafter and (ii) references herein to the term “Issuing Bank” shall be deemed to refer to such successor or to any previous Issuing Bank, or to such successor and all previous Issuing Banks, as the context shall require. After the replacement or resignation of any Issuing Bank hereunder, the replaced or retiring Issuing Bank shall remain a party hereto and shall continue to have all the rights and obligations of such Issuing Bank under this Agreement with respect to Letters of Credit issued by it prior to such replacement or resignation, but shall not be required to issue additional Letters of Credit.

 

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(j) Cash Collateralization. If any Event of Default shall occur and be continuing, on the Business Day that the Borrower receives notice from the Revolver Agent or the Required Lenders (or, if the maturity of the Loans has been accelerated, the Required Revolving Lenders) demanding the deposit of cash collateral pursuant to this paragraph, the Borrower shall deposit in an account with the Collateral Agent, in the name of the Collateral Agent and for the benefit of the Lenders, an amount in cash equal to 103% the LC Exposure as of such date plus any accrued and unpaid fees thereon; provided that the obligation to deposit such cash collateral shall become effective immediately, and such deposit shall become immediately due and payable, without demand or other notice of any kind, upon the occurrence of any Event of Default with respect to the Borrower described in paragraph (g) or (h) of Section 7.01. The Borrower also shall deposit cash collateral pursuant to this paragraph as and to the extent required by Section 2.11(b) and Section 2.22. Each such deposit shall be held by the Collateral Agent as collateral for the payment and performance of the obligations of the Borrower under this Agreement. The Collateral Agent shall have exclusive dominion and control, including the exclusive right of withdrawal, over such account. Other than any interest earned on the investment of such deposits, which investments shall be made at the option and sole discretion of the Revolver Agent and at the Borrower’s risk and expense, such deposits shall not bear interest. Interest or profits, if any, on such investments shall accumulate in such account. Moneys in such account shall be applied by the Revolver Agent to reimburse the applicable Issuing Bank for LC Disbursements for which it has not been reimbursed and, to the extent not so applied, shall be held for the satisfaction of the reimbursement obligations of the Borrower for the LC Exposure at such time or, if the maturity of the Loans has been accelerated (but subject to the consent of the Required Revolving Lenders), be applied to satisfy other obligations of the Borrower under this Agreement. If the Borrower is required to provide an amount of cash collateral hereunder as a result of the occurrence of an Event of Default, such amount (to the extent not applied as aforesaid) shall be returned to the Borrower within three (3) Business Days after all Events of Default have been cured or waived.

(k) Additional Issuing Banks. The Borrower may at any time, and from time to time, designate one or more additional Lenders to act as an issuing bank under this Agreement with the consent of the Revolver Agent (which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld) and such Lender. Any Lender designated as an issuing bank pursuant to this Section 2.05(k) shall be deemed to be and shall have all the rights and obligations of an “Issuing Bank” hereunder.

SECTION 2.06 Funding of Borrowings.

(a) Each Lender shall make each Loan to be made by it hereunder on the proposed date thereof by wire transfer of immediately available funds by 12:00 noon (or, in the case of any requested same-day ABR Borrowing, 2:00 p.m.), New York City time, to the account of the Applicable Agent most recently designated by it for such purpose by notice to the Lenders; provided that Swingline Loans shall be made as provided in Section 2.04. The Applicable Agent will make such Loans available to the Borrower by promptly crediting the amounts so received in like funds, to an account of the Borrower maintained with the Applicable Agent in New York City and designated by the Borrower in the applicable Borrowing Request; provided that ABR Revolving Loans made to finance the reimbursement of an LC Disbursement as provided in Section 2.05(e) shall be remitted by the Revolver Agent to the applicable Issuing Bank.

 

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(b) Unless the Applicable Agent shall have received notice from a Lender prior to the proposed Borrowing that such Lender will not make available to the Applicable Agent such Lender’s share of such Borrowing, the Applicable Agent may assume that such Lender has made such share available on such date in accordance with paragraph (a) of this Section 2.06 and may, in reliance upon such assumption and in its sole discretion, make available to the Borrower a corresponding amount. In such event, if a Lender has not in fact made its share of the applicable Borrowing available to the Applicable Agent, then the applicable Lender and the Borrower severally agree to pay to the Applicable Agent forthwith on demand such corresponding amount with interest thereon, for each day from and including the date such amount is made available to the Borrower to but excluding the date of payment to the Applicable Agent, at (i) in the case of such Lender, the greater of the Federal Funds Effective Rate and a rate determined by the Applicable Agent in accordance with banking industry rules on interbank compensation or (ii) in the case of the Borrower, the interest rate applicable to ABR Loans. If such Lender pays such amount to the Applicable Agent, then such amount shall constitute such Lender’s Loan included in such Borrowing.

SECTION 2.07 Interest Elections.

(a) Each Revolving Borrowing and Term Loan Borrowing initially shall be of the Type specified in the applicable Borrowing Request and, in the case of a Eurodollar Borrowing, shall have an initial Interest Period as specified in such Borrowing Request or as designated by Section 2.03. Thereafter, the Borrower may elect to convert such Borrowing to a different Type or to continue such Borrowing and, in the case of a Eurodollar Borrowing, may elect Interest Periods therefor, all as provided in this Section 2.07. The Borrower may elect different options with respect to different portions of the affected Borrowing, in which case each such portion shall be allocated ratably among the Lenders holding the Loans comprising such Borrowing, and the Loans comprising each such portion shall be considered a separate Borrowing. This Section 2.07 shall not apply to Swingline Loans, which may not be converted or continued.

(b) To make an election pursuant to this Section 2.07, the Borrower shall notify the Applicable Agent of such election in writing by the time that a Borrowing Request would be required under Section 2.03 if the Borrower were requesting a Revolving Borrowing of the Type resulting from such election to be made on the effective date of such election. Each such Interest Election Request shall be signed by the Borrower and shall be irrevocable.

(c) Each written Interest Election Request shall specify the following information in compliance with Section 2.02:

(i) the Borrowing to which such Interest Election Request applies and, if different options are being elected with respect to different portions thereof, the portions thereof to be allocated to each resulting Borrowing (in which case the information to be specified pursuant to clauses (iii) and (iv) below shall be specified for each resulting Borrowing),

 

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(ii) the effective date of the election made pursuant to such Interest Election Request, which shall be a Business Day,

(iii) whether the resulting Borrowing is to be an ABR Borrowing or a Eurodollar Borrowing, and

(iv) if the resulting Borrowing is a Eurodollar Borrowing, the Interest Period to be applicable thereto after giving effect to such election, which shall be a period contemplated by the definition of the term “Interest Period.”

If any such Interest Election Request requests a Eurodollar Borrowing but does not specify an Interest Period, then the Borrower shall be deemed to have selected an Interest Period of one month’s duration.

(d) Promptly following receipt of an Interest Election Request, the Applicable Agent shall advise each Lender of the details thereof and of such Lender’s portion of each resulting Borrowing.

(e) If the Borrower fails to deliver a timely Interest Election Request with respect to a Eurodollar Borrowing prior to the end of the Interest Period applicable thereto, then, unless such Borrowing is repaid as provided herein, at the end of such Interest Period such Borrowing shall be converted to an ABR Borrowing.

(f) Notwithstanding any contrary provision hereof, if an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing and the Applicable Agent, at the request of the Required Lenders, so notifies the Borrower, then, so long as an Event of Default is continuing, no outstanding Borrowing may be converted to or continued as a Eurodollar Borrowing in excess of one month.

SECTION 2.08 Termination and Reduction of Commitments.

(a) Unless previously terminated, (i) the Revolving Commitments shall terminate on the Revolving Maturity Date and (ii) the Initial Term Loan Commitments shall automatically terminate upon funding of the Initial Term Loans on the Closing Date.

(b) The Borrower may at any time terminate, or from time to time reduce, the Commitments of any Class; provided that (i) each reduction of the Commitments of any Class shall be in an amount that is an integral multiple of $100,000 and not less than $100,000, and (ii) the Borrower shall not terminate or reduce the Revolving Commitments if, after giving effect to any concurrent prepayment of the Revolving Loans and Swingline Loans and/or cash collateralization of outstanding Letters of Credit in a manner reasonably satisfactory to the applicable Issuing Bank and the Revolver Agent and in a face amount equal to 103% of the outstanding amount of the applicable LC Exposure in respect thereof, the aggregate Revolving Exposures would exceed the aggregate Revolving Commitments.

 

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(c) The Borrower shall notify the Applicable Agent of any election to terminate or reduce the Commitments under paragraph (b) of this Section 2.08 at least three (3) Business Days prior to the effective date of such termination or reduction, specifying such election and the effective date thereof. Promptly following receipt of any notice, the Applicable Agent shall advise the Lenders of the contents thereof. Each notice delivered by the Borrower pursuant to this Section 2.08 shall be irrevocable; provided that a notice of termination of the Revolving Commitments delivered by the Borrower may state that such notice is conditioned upon the effectiveness of other credit facilities, or the closing of a refinancing transaction, a sale of all or substantially all of the assets of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries or a Change of Control, in which case such notice may be revoked by the Borrower (by notice to the Applicable Agent) on or prior to the specified effective date if such condition is not satisfied. Any termination or reduction of the Commitments of any Class shall be permanent. Each reduction of the Commitments of any Class shall be made ratably among the Lenders in accordance with their respective Commitments of such Class.

SECTION 2.09 Repayment of Loans; Evidence of Debt.

(a) The Borrower hereby unconditionally promises to pay (i) to the Revolver Agent for the account of each Lender the then unpaid principal amount of each Revolving Loan of such Lender on the Revolving Maturity Date, (ii) to the Administrative Agent for the account of each Lender the then unpaid principal amount of each Term Loan of such Lender as provided in Section 2.10, and (iii) to the Revolver Agent the then unpaid principal amount of each Swingline Loan on the earlier of the Revolving Maturity Date and the first date after such Swingline Loan is made that is the 15th or last day of a calendar month and is at least 2 Business Days after such Swingline Loan is made; provided that on each date that a Revolving Borrowing is made, the Borrower shall repay all Swingline Loans then outstanding.

(b) Each Lender shall maintain in accordance with its usual practice an account or accounts evidencing the indebtedness of the Borrower to such Lender resulting from each Loan made by such Lender, including the amounts of principal and interest payable and paid to such Lender from time to time hereunder.

(c) (1) The Administrative Agent shall maintain a Register in which it shall record (i) the amount of each Term Loan made hereunder, the Class and Type thereof and the Interest Period applicable thereto, (ii) the amount of any principal or interest due and payable or to become due and payable from the Borrower to each Term Lender hereunder and (iii) the amount of any sum received by the Administrative Agent hereunder for the account of the Term Lenders and each Term Lender’s share thereof and (2) the Revolver Agent shall maintain a Register in which it shall record (i) the amount of each Revolving Loan made hereunder, the Class and Type thereof and the Interest Period applicable thereto, (ii) the amount of any principal or interest due and payable or to become due and payable from the Borrower to each Revolving Lender hereunder and (iii) the amount of any sum received by the Revolver Agent hereunder for the account of the Revolving Lenders and each Revolving Lender’s share thereof. Without limitation of the foregoing, the Revolver Agent shall furnish to the Administrative Agent on a monthly basis, and at such other times as the Administrative Agent may request, a copy of the Register maintained by the Revolver Agent.

 

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(d) The entries made in the Register shall be prima facie evidence of the existence and amounts of the obligations recorded therein; provided that the failure of any Lender or the Administrative Agent or Revolver Agent to maintain accounts pursuant to paragraph (b) or (c) of this Section 2.09 or any error therein shall not in any manner affect the obligation of the Borrower to repay the Loans in accordance with the terms of this Agreement.

(e) Any Lender may request that Loans of any Class made by it be evidenced by a promissory note (a “Note”). In such event, the Borrower shall prepare, execute and deliver to such Lender a Note payable to such Lender (or, if requested by such Lender, to such Lender and its registered assigns) and in a form approved by the Administrative Agent and, in the case of Revolving Loans and Revolving Commitment, the Revolver Agent. Thereafter, the Loans evidenced by such Note and interest thereon shall at all times (including after assignment pursuant to Section 9.04) be represented by one or more Notes in such form payable to such payee and its registered assigns.

SECTION 2.10 Amortization of Term Loans.

(a) The Borrower shall repay Initial Term Loan Borrowings on each date (each such date, a “Term Loan Installment Date”) set forth below in the aggregate principal amount equal to the percentage set forth below of the aggregate outstanding principal amount of the Initial Term Loans on the Closing Date (after giving effect to the Borrowing of the Initial Term Loans on the Closing Date and to be adjusted for any voluntary and mandatory prepayments):

 

Date

   Amount (Percent of Principal)

December 31, 2021

   1.25%

March 31, 2022

   1.25%

June 30, 2022

   1.25%

September 30, 2022

   1.25%

December 31, 2022

   1.25%

March 31, 2023

   1.25%

June 30, 2023

   1.25%

September 30, 2023

   1.25%

December 31, 2023

   1.25%

March 31, 2024

   1.25%

June 30, 2024

   1.25%

September 30, 2024

   1.25%

December 31, 2024

   1.25%

March 31, 2025

   1.25%

June 30, 2025

   1.25%

September 30, 2025

   1.25%

December 31, 2025

   1.25%

March 31, 2026

   1.25%

June 30, 2026

   1.25%

Initial Term Loan Maturity Date

   Remaining outstanding aggregate
principal amount of Initial Term

Loans

 

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(b) To the extent not previously paid, all Initial Term Loans shall be due and payable on the Initial Term Loan Maturity Date.

SECTION 2.11 Prepayment of Loans.

(a) The Borrower shall have the right at any time and from time to time to prepay any Borrowing of any Class of Loans, in whole or in part, as selected by the Borrower in its sole discretion and subject to the requirements of this Section 2.11 and the payment of any premium as provided in Section 2.12.

(b) In the event and on such occasion that the aggregate Revolving Exposures exceed the aggregate Revolving Commitments, the Borrower shall prepay Revolving Borrowings or Swingline Loans (or, if no such Borrowings are outstanding, deposit cash collateral in an account with the Collateral Agent pursuant to Section 2.05(j)) in an aggregate amount equal to such excess.

(c) In the event and on each occasion that any Net Proceeds are received by or on behalf of Holdings, the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary in respect of any Prepayment Event, the Borrower shall, promptly after such Net Proceeds are received by Holdings, the Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary (and in any event not later than the fifth Business Day after such Net Proceeds are received), prepay Loans as provided in clause (e) of this Section 2.11 in an amount equal to 100% of such Net Proceeds (or, to the extent that, after giving effect to such transaction, the Total Net Leverage Ratio does not exceed 3.75:1.00 on a Pro Forma Basis as of such date, 0% of such Net Proceeds); provided that, in the case of any event described in clause (a) or (b) of the definition of the term “Prepayment Event”, if the Borrower shall deliver to the Administrative Agent a certificate of a Financial Officer to the effect that the Borrower and the Restricted Subsidiaries intend to apply the Net Proceeds from such event (or a portion thereof specified in such certificate), within 540 days after receipt of such Net Proceeds, to acquire or replace real property, equipment or other tangible assets (excluding inventory), or other Investment otherwise permitted hereunder, to be used in the business of the Borrower and the Restricted Subsidiaries (or, at the election of the Borrower, credit such Net Proceeds against amounts paid in respect of an acquisition or Investment consummated no more than 365 days prior to the receipt of such Net Proceeds), and certifying that no Default has occurred and is continuing, then no prepayment shall be required pursuant to this paragraph in respect of the Net Proceeds specified in such certificate, except to the extent of any such Net Proceeds therefrom that have not been so applied or contractually committed in writing by the end of such 540-day period (and, if so contractually committed in writing but not applied prior to the end of such 540-day period, applied within 180 days of the end of such period), promptly after which time a prepayment shall be required in an amount equal to such Net Proceeds that have not been so applied.

(d) [Reserved]

(e) All prepayments of the Loans required under clause (c) of this Section 2.11 (A) shall be applied first, to prepay the scheduled installments of principal on the Term Loans (pro rata between Initial Term Loans and Incremental Term Loans, if any (unless otherwise specified in the Additional Credit Extension Amendment governing such Incremental Term Loan)

 

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based on the outstanding principal balance of such Term Loans as of the date of prepayment) in direct order of maturity; second to the outstanding principal balance of the Revolving Loans, which shall not effect a permanent reduction to the Revolving Loan Commitment; and third to cash collateralize any outstanding Letters of Credit in an amount equal to 103% of the face amount of such outstanding Letters of Credit. Prior to any optional or mandatory prepayment of Borrowings hereunder, the Borrower shall determine in accordance with the foregoing provisions of this Section 2.11 the Borrowing or Borrowings of each applicable Class to be prepaid and shall specify such determination in the notice of such prepayment pursuant to paragraph (f) of this Section 2.11.

(f) The Borrower shall notify the Applicable Agent (and, in the case of prepayment of a Swingline Loan, the Swingline Lender) in writing of any prepayment hereunder (i) in the case of prepayment of a Eurodollar Borrowing, not later than 12:00 noon, New York City time, three (3) Business Days before the date of prepayment, (ii) in the case of prepayment of an ABR Borrowing, not later than 12:00 noon, New York City time, one (1) Business Day before the date of prepayment or (iii) in the case of prepayment of a Swingline Loan, not later than 2:00 p.m., New York City time, on the date of prepayment. Each such notice shall be irrevocable and shall specify the prepayment date, the principal amount of each Borrowing or portion thereof to be prepaid, the Class of Loans to be prepaid and, in the case of a mandatory prepayment, a reasonably detailed calculation of the amount of such prepayment; provided that, (i) if a notice of optional prepayment is given in connection with a conditional notice of termination of the Revolving Commitments as contemplated by Section 2.08, then such notice of prepayment may be revoked if such notice of termination is revoked in accordance with Section 2.08 and (ii) otherwise, if a notice of prepayment is given under this Section 2.11, such notice of prepayment may be conditioned upon the effectiveness of other credit facilities or the closing of a refinancing transaction, a sale of all or substantially all of the assets of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries or a Change of Control and such notice of prepayment may be revoked if such condition is not satisfied. Promptly following receipt of any such notice (other than a notice relating solely to Swingline Loans), the Applicable Agent shall advise the Lenders of the contents thereof. Each partial prepayment of any Borrowing shall be in an amount that would be permitted in the case of an advance of a Borrowing of the same Type as provided in Section 2.02, except as necessary to apply fully the required amount of a mandatory prepayment. Each prepayment of a Borrowing shall be applied ratably to the Loans of each applicable Lender included in the prepaid Borrowing. Prepayments shall be accompanied by accrued interest to the extent required by Section 2.13 but shall in no event include premium or penalty; provided that in the event that the notice required by this clause (f) is not made within the required times with respect to any mandatory prepayments, such prepayment shall nevertheless be required to be made within the times set forth for such prepayment herein, and any such prepayment of Eurodollar Loans shall be required to be accompanied by additional amounts as set forth in Section 2.16.

(g) Each Term Lender may reject all or a portion of its pro rata share of any mandatory prepayment (such declined amounts, the “Declined Proceeds”) of Term Loans required to be made pursuant to clause (c) of this Section 2.11 (except in respect of mandatory prepayments made with Net Proceeds from any event described in clause (c) of the definition of the term “Prepayment Event”) by providing written notice (each, a “Rejection Notice”) to the Administrative Agent and the Borrower no later than 5:00 p.m. one (1) Business Day after the date of such Lender’s receipt of notice from the Administrative Agent regarding such prepayment.

 

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Each Rejection Notice from a given Lender shall specify the principal amount of the mandatory repayment of Term Loans to be rejected by such Lender. If a Lender of Term Loans fails to deliver a Rejection Notice to the Administrative Agent within the time frame specified above or such Rejection Notice fails to specify the principal amount of the Term Loans to be rejected, any such failure will be deemed an acceptance of the total amount of such mandatory prepayment of its Term Loans. Any Declined Proceeds shall be retained by the Borrower (such remaining Declined Proceeds, the “Borrower Retained Prepayment Amounts”).

(h) Notwithstanding any other provisions of this Section 2.11, (i) to the extent that any of or all the Net Proceeds of any disposition by a Foreign Subsidiary (“Foreign Disposition”), the Net Proceeds of any casualty event from a Foreign Subsidiary (a “Foreign Casualty Event”) attributable to Foreign Subsidiaries are prohibited or delayed by (x) applicable local law or (y) material constituent document restrictions (including as a result of minority ownership) and other restriction in material agreements, from being repatriated to the United States, the portion of such Net Proceeds so affected will not be required to be applied to repay Term Loans at the times provided in this Section 2.11 but may be retained by the applicable Foreign Subsidiary so long, but only so long, as the applicable local law will not permit repatriation to the United States (the Borrower hereby agreeing to undertake to use commercially reasonable efforts to overcome or eliminate any such restriction (subject to the considerations above and as determined in the Borrower’s reasonable business judgment) to make the relevant prepayment), and once such repatriation of any of such affected Net Proceeds is permitted under the applicable local law, such repatriation will be promptly effected and an amount equal to such repatriated Net Proceeds will be promptly (and in any event not later than five (5) Business Days after such repatriation) applied (net of additional taxes payable or reserved against as a result thereof) to the repayment of the Term Loans pursuant to this Section 2.11 to the extent provided herein and (ii) to the extent that the repatriation of any of or all the Net Proceeds of any Foreign Disposition or any Foreign Casualty Event attributable to Foreign Subsidiaries would have material adverse tax consequences (as reasonably determined in good faith by the Borrower) with respect to such Net Proceeds, such Net Proceeds so affected will not be required to be applied to repay Term Loans at the times provided in this Section 2.11 but may be retained by the applicable Foreign Subsidiary.

(i) In addition to any prepayment of Term Loans pursuant to Section 2.11(a), Holdings, the Borrower or any Subsidiary of the Borrower may at any time, pursuant to a bid made in the open market to all Lenders through the Administrative Agent pursuant to procedures reasonably acceptable to the Administrative Agent, prepay Term Loans of any Class of any Lender so long as (w) immediately prior to and after giving effect to any such prepayment pursuant to this Section 2.11(i), no Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, (x) no proceeds of Swingline Loans or Revolving Loans are utilized to fund any such prepayment, and (y) Holdings, the Borrower or such Subsidiary, as applicable, and each Lender whose Term Loans are to be prepaid pursuant to this Section 2.11(i) execute and deliver to the Administrative Agent an instrument identifying the amount of Term Loans of each Class of each such Lender to be so prepaid, the date of such prepayment and the prepayment price therefor. The principal amount of any Term Loans of any Class prepaid pursuant to this paragraph (i) shall reduce remaining scheduled amortization for such Class of Term Loans on a pro rata basis.

 

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SECTION 2.12 Fees.

(a) The Borrower agrees to pay to the Revolver Agent for the account of each Lender a commitment fee, which shall accrue at a rate per annum equal to the Applicable Rate with respect thereto on the average daily unused amount of each Revolving Commitment of such Lender during the period from and including the Closing Date to but excluding the date on which the aggregate Revolving Commitments terminate. Accrued commitment fees shall be payable in arrears in respect of the Revolving Commitments on the last Business Day of March, June, September and December of each year and on the date on which the Revolving Commitments terminate. All commitment fees shall be computed on the basis of a year of 360 days and shall be payable for the actual number of days elapsed (including the first day but excluding the last day). For purposes of computing commitment fees with respect to Revolving Commitments, a Revolving Commitment of a Lender shall be deemed to be used to the extent of the outstanding Revolving Loans and LC Exposure of such Lender (and the Swingline Exposure of such Lender shall be disregarded for such purpose).

(b) The Borrower agrees to pay (i) to the Revolver Agent for the account of each Revolving Lender a participation fee with respect to its participations in Letters of Credit, which shall accrue at the same Applicable Rate used to determine the interest rate applicable to Eurodollar Revolving Loans (as such Applicable Rate may be increased pursuant to Section 2.13(c)) on the average daily amount of such Lender’s LC Exposure (excluding any portion thereof attributable to unreimbursed LC Disbursements) during the period from and including the date of issuance of any Letter of Credit to but excluding the later of the date on which such Lender’s Revolving Commitment terminates and the date on which such Lender ceases to have any LC Exposure, and (ii) to the applicable Issuing Bank a fronting fee, which shall accrue at a rate equal to 0.125% per annum on the average daily amount of the LC Exposure (excluding any portion thereof attributable to unreimbursed LC Disbursements) during the period from and including the Closing Date to but excluding the later of the date of termination of the Revolving Commitments and the date on which there ceases to be any LC Exposure, as well as such Issuing Bank’s standard fees with respect to the issuance, amendment, renewal or extension of any Letter of Credit or processing of drawings thereunder. Participation fees and fronting fees shall be payable on the last Business Day of March, June, September and December of each year, commencing on the first such date to occur after the Closing Date; provided that all such fees shall be payable on the date on which the Revolving Commitments terminate and any such fees accruing after the date on which the Revolving Commitments terminate shall be payable on demand. Any other fees payable to any Issuing Bank pursuant to this paragraph shall be payable within 10 days after demand. All participation fees and fronting fees shall be computed on the basis of a year of 360 days and shall be payable for the actual number of days elapsed (including the first day but excluding the last day).

(c) [Reserved].

(d) The Borrower agrees to pay to the Administrative Agent and the Arranger signatory to the Fee Letter, as applicable, fees in the amount and at the times separately agreed upon between the Borrower, the Administrative Agent and the Arranger signatory to the Fee Letter in the Fee Letter.

 

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(e) The Borrower agrees to pay to the Administrative Agent, for its own account, fees payable in the amounts and at the times separately agreed upon between the Borrower and the Administrative Agent in the Fee Letter.

(f) [Reserved].

(g) [Reserved].

(h) If the Borrower or any of its Affiliates pays the Term Loans in any amount and for any reason, no prepayment premium shall apply.

(i) All fees payable hereunder shall be paid on the dates due, in immediately available funds, to the Applicable Agent (or to the applicable Issuing Bank, in the case of fees payable to it) for distribution, in the case of commitment fees and participation fees, to the Lenders entitled thereto. Fees paid shall not be refundable under any circumstances.

SECTION 2.13 Interest.

(a) The Loans comprising each ABR Borrowing (including each Swingline Loan) shall bear interest at the Alternate Base Rate plus the Applicable Rate.

(b) The Loans comprising each Eurodollar Borrowing shall bear interest at the Adjusted LIBO Rate for the Interest Period in effect for such Borrowing plus the Applicable Rate.

(c) Notwithstanding the foregoing, (i) automatically upon the occurrence and during the continuance of a Specified Default, or (ii) at the election of the Required Lenders upon the occurrence and during the continuance any other Event of Default, the Borrower shall pay interest on overdue amounts hereunder at a fluctuating interest rate at all times equal to 2.00% per annum over the Applicable Rate (but not with respect to any commitment fee set forth therein) to the fullest extent permitted by applicable laws. In the case of clause (ii) above, in the case of any Event of Default resulting from the failure to observe or perform the Financial Covenant, such election may not be made prior to the expiration of the Borrower’s Cure Right with respect to such Financial Covenant Event of Default.

(d) Accrued interest on each Loan shall be payable in arrears on each Interest Payment Date for such Loan and, in the case of Revolving Loans, upon termination of the Revolving Commitments; provided that (i) interest accrued pursuant to paragraph (c) of this Section 2.13 shall be payable on demand, (ii) in the event of any repayment or prepayment of any Loan (other than a prepayment of an ABR Revolving Loan prior to the end of the Revolving Availability Period), accrued interest on the principal amount repaid or prepaid shall be payable on the date of such repayment or prepayment and (iii) in the event of any conversion of any Eurodollar Loan prior to the end of the current Interest Period therefor, accrued interest on such Loan shall be payable on the effective date of such conversion.

(e) All interest hereunder shall be computed on the basis of a year of 360 days, except that interest computed by reference to the Alternate Base Rate at times when the Alternate Base Rate is based on the Prime Rate shall be computed on the basis of a year of 365 days (or 366 days in a leap year), and in each case shall be payable for the actual number of days elapsed (including the first day but excluding the last day). The applicable Alternate Base Rate or Adjusted LIBO Rate shall be determined by the Administrative Agent, and such determination shall be conclusive absent manifest error.

 

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SECTION 2.14 Alternate Rate of Interest; Illegality.

(a) Subject to clauses (b), (c), (d), (e), (f) and (g) of this Section 2.14, if prior to the commencement of any Interest Period for a Eurodollar Borrowing:

(i) the Administrative Agent determines (which determination shall be conclusive absent manifest error) that adequate and reasonable means do not exist for ascertaining the Adjusted LIBO Rate or the LIBO Rate, as applicable (including because the LIBO Screen Rate is not available or published on a current basis), for such Interest Period; provided that no Benchmark Transition Event shall have occurred at such time; or

(ii) the Administrative Agent is advised by the Required Lenders that the Adjusted LIBO Rate or the LIBO Rate, as applicable, for such Interest Period will not adequately and fairly reflect the cost to such Lenders (or Lender) of making or maintaining their Loans (or its Loan) included in such Borrowing for such Interest Period;

then the Administrative Agent shall give notice thereof to the Borrower and the Lenders by telephone, telecopy or electronic mail as promptly as practicable thereafter and, until the Administrative Agent notifies the Borrower and the Lenders that the circumstances giving rise to such notice no longer exist, (A) any Interest Election Request that requests the conversion of any Borrowing to, or continuation of any Borrowing as, a Eurodollar Borrowing shall be ineffective and (B) if any Borrowing Request requests a Eurodollar Borrowing, such Borrowing shall be made as an ABR Borrowing; provided that if the circumstances giving rise to such notice affect only one Type of Borrowings, then the other Type of Borrowings shall be permitted. Furthermore, if any Eurodollar Loan is outstanding on the date of the Borrower’s receipt of the notice from the Administrative Agent referred to in this Section 2.14(a), then until the Administrative Agent notifies the Borrower and the Lenders that the circumstances giving rise to such notice no longer exist, on the last day of the Interest Period applicable to such Loan (or the next succeeding Business Day if such day is not a Business Day), such Loan shall be converted by the Administrative Agent to, and shall constitute, an ABR Loan on such day.

(b) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein or in any other Loan Document (and any Swap Agreement shall be deemed not to be a “Loan Document” for purposes of this Section 2.14), if a Benchmark Transition Event or an Early Opt-in Election, as applicable, and its related Benchmark Replacement Date have occurred prior to the Reference Time in respect of any setting of the then-current Benchmark, then (x) if a Benchmark Replacement is determined in accordance with clause (1) or (2) of the definition of “Benchmark Replacement” for such Benchmark Replacement Date, such Benchmark Replacement will replace such Benchmark for all purposes hereunder and under any Loan Document in respect of such Benchmark setting and subsequent Benchmark settings without any amendment to, or further action or consent of any other party to, this Agreement or any other Loan Document and (y) if a Benchmark Replacement is determined in accordance with clause (3) of the definition of “Benchmark Replacement” for such Benchmark Replacement Date, such Benchmark Replacement will replace such Benchmark

 

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for all purposes hereunder and under any Loan Document in respect of any Benchmark setting at or after 5:00 p.m. (New York City time) on the fifth (5th) Business Day after the date notice of such Benchmark Replacement is provided to the Lenders without any amendment to, or further action or consent of any other party to, this Agreement or any other Loan Document so long as the Administrative Agent has not received, by such time, written notice of objection to such Benchmark Replacement from Lenders comprising the Required Lenders of each Class.

(c) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein or in any other Loan Document and subject to the proviso below in this paragraph, if a Term SOFR Transition Event and its related Benchmark Replacement Date have occurred prior to the Reference Time in respect of any setting of the then-current Benchmark, then the applicable Benchmark Replacement will replace the then-current Benchmark for all purposes hereunder or under any Loan Document in respect of such Benchmark setting and subsequent Benchmark settings, without any amendment to, or further action or consent of any other party to, this Agreement or any other Loan Document; provided that, this clause (c) shall not be effective unless the Administrative Agent has delivered to the Lenders and the Borrower a Term SOFR Notice. For the avoidance of doubt, the Administrative Agent shall not be required to deliver a Term SOFR Notice after a Term SOFR Transition Event and may do so in its sole discretion.

(d) In connection with the implementation of a Benchmark Replacement, the Administrative Agent, in consultation with the Borrower, will have the right to make Benchmark Replacement Conforming Changes from time to time and, notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein or in any other Loan Document, any amendments implementing such Benchmark Replacement Conforming Changes will become effective without any further action or consent of any other party to this Agreement or any other Loan Document.

(e) The Administrative Agent will promptly notify the Borrower and the Lenders of (i) any occurrence of a Benchmark Transition Event, a Term SOFR Transition Event or an Early Opt-in Election, as applicable, and its related Benchmark Replacement Date, (ii) the implementation of any Benchmark Replacement, (iii) the effectiveness of any Benchmark Replacement Conforming Changes, (iv) the removal or reinstatement of any tenor of a Benchmark pursuant to clause (d) above and (v) the commencement or conclusion of any Benchmark Unavailability Period. Any determination, decision or election that may be made by the Administrative Agent or, if applicable, any Lender (or group of Lenders) pursuant to this Section 2.14, including any determination with respect to a tenor, rate or adjustment or of the occurrence or non-occurrence of an event, circumstance or date and any decision to take or refrain from taking any action or any selection, will be conclusive and binding absent manifest error and may be made in its or their sole discretion and without consent from any other party to this Agreement or any other Loan Document, except, in each case, as expressly required pursuant to this Section 2.14.

(f) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein or in any other Loan Document, at any time (including in connection with the implementation of a Benchmark Replacement), (i) if the then-current Benchmark is a term rate (including Term SOFR or LIBO Rate) and either (A) any tenor for such Benchmark is not displayed on a screen or other information service that publishes such rate from time to time as selected by the Administrative Agent in its reasonable discretion or (B) the regulatory supervisor for the administrator of such

 

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Benchmark has provided a public statement or publication of information announcing that any tenor for such Benchmark is or will be no longer representative, then the Administrative Agent may modify the definition of “Interest Period” for any Benchmark settings at or after such time to remove such unavailable or non-representative tenor and (ii) if a tenor that was removed pursuant to clause (i) above either (A) is subsequently displayed on a screen or information service for a Benchmark (including a Benchmark Replacement) or (B) is not, or is no longer, subject to an announcement that it is or will no longer be representative for a Benchmark (including a Benchmark Replacement), then the Administrative Agent may modify the definition of “Interest Period” for all Benchmark settings at or after such time to reinstate such previously removed tenor.

(g) Upon the Borrower’s receipt of notice of the commencement of a Benchmark Unavailability Period, the Borrower may revoke any request for a Eurodollar Borrowing of, conversion to or continuation of Eurodollar Loans to be made, converted or continued during any Benchmark Unavailability Period and, failing that, the Borrower will be deemed to have converted any such request into a request for a Borrowing of or conversion to ABR Loans. During any Benchmark Unavailability Period or at any time that a tenor for the then-current Benchmark is not an Available Tenor, the component of ABR based upon the then-current Benchmark or such tenor for such Benchmark, as applicable, will not be used in any determination of ABR.

(h) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Agreement, the Administrative Agent and, to the extent any other party hereto shall have any consent or consultation right (other than a negative consent right) in respect of the selection of the Benchmark Replacement, each such applicable party, shall use commercially reasonable efforts to satisfy any applicable Internal Revenue Service guidance, including to meet the standards set forth in Proposed Treasury Regulation Section 1.1001-6 and any future guidance, to the effect that a Benchmark Replacement will not result in a deemed exchange for U.S. federal income tax purposes of any Loan under this Agreement if the Borrower determines that such deemed exchange would cause the Borrower, or its direct or indirect beneficial owners, any adverse tax consequences.

SECTION 2.15 Increased Costs.

(a) If any Change in Law shall:

(i) impose, modify or deem applicable any reserve, special deposit, compulsory loan, insurance charge or similar requirement against assets of, deposits with or for the account of, or credit extended by, any Lender (except any such reserve requirement reflected in the Adjusted LIBO Rate) or any Issuing Bank,

(ii) subject the Administrative Agent, the Revolver Agent, any Lender or any Issuing Bank to any Taxes (other than (A) Indemnified Taxes or Other Taxes, or (B) Excluded Taxes) on its loans, letters of credit, commitments or other obligations, or its deposits, reserves, other liabilities or capital attributable thereto, or

 

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(iii) impose on any Lender or any Issuing Bank or the London interbank market any other condition, cost or expense affecting this Agreement or Eurodollar Loans made by such Lender or any Letter of Credit or participation therein,

and the result of any of the foregoing shall be to increase the cost to such Lender or such Issuing Bank of making, converting to, continuing or maintaining any Eurodollar Loan (or of maintaining its obligation to make any such Loan) or to increase the cost to such Lender or such Issuing Bank of participating in, issuing or maintaining any Letter of Credit or to reduce the amount of any sum received or receivable by the Administrative Agent, the Revolver Agent, such Lender or such Issuing Bank hereunder (whether of principal, interest or otherwise), then the Borrower will pay to the Administrative Agent, the Revolver Agent, such Lender or such Issuing Bank, as applicable, such additional amount or amounts as will compensate such Lender or such Issuing Bank, as applicable, for such additional costs incurred or reduction suffered.

(b) If any Lender or any Issuing Bank determines that any Change in Law regarding capital or liquidity requirements has or would have the effect of reducing the rate of return on such Lender’s or such Issuing Bank’s capital or on the capital of such Lender’s or such Issuing Bank’s holding company, if any, as a consequence of this Agreement or the Loans made by, or participations in Letters of Credit held by, such Lender, or the Letters of Credit issued by such Issuing Bank, to a level below that which such Lender or such Issuing Bank or such Lender’s or such Issuing Bank’s holding company could have achieved but for such Change in Law (taking into consideration such Lender’s or such Issuing Bank’s policies and the policies of such Lender’s or such Issuing Bank’s holding company with respect to capital adequacy), then from time to time the Borrower will pay to such Lender or such Issuing Bank, as applicable, such additional amount or amounts as will compensate such Lender or such Issuing Bank or such Lender’s or such Issuing Bank’s holding company for any such reduction suffered.

(c) A certificate of a Lender or an Issuing Bank setting forth the amount or amounts necessary to compensate such Lender or such Issuing Bank or its holding company, as applicable, as specified in paragraph (a) or (b) of this Section 2.15 shall be delivered to the Borrower and shall be conclusive absent manifest error. The Borrower shall pay such Lender or such Issuing Bank, as applicable, the amount shown as due on any such certificate within 10 days after receipt thereof.

(d) Failure or delay on the part of any Lender or any Issuing Bank to demand compensation pursuant to this Section 2.15 shall not constitute a waiver of such Lender’s or such Issuing Bank’s right to demand such compensation; provided that the Borrower shall not be required to compensate a Lender or an Issuing Bank pursuant to this Section 2.15 for any increased costs or reductions incurred more than 270 days prior to the date that such Lender or such Issuing Bank, as applicable, notifies the Borrower of the Change in Law giving rise to such increased costs or reductions and of such Lender’s or such Issuing Bank’s intention to claim compensation therefor; provided, further, that, if the Change in Law giving rise to such increased costs or reductions is retroactive, then the 270-day period referred to above shall be extended to include the period of retroactive effect thereof.

 

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SECTION 2.16 Break Funding Payments. In the event of (a) the payment of any principal of any Eurodollar Loan other than on the last day of an Interest Period applicable thereto (including as a result of an Event of Default), (b) the conversion of any Eurodollar Loan other than on the last day of the Interest Period applicable thereto, (c) the failure to borrow, convert, continue or prepay any Eurodollar Loan on the date specified in any notice delivered pursuant hereto (regardless of whether such notice may be revoked under Section 2.11(f) and is revoked in accordance therewith), or (d) the assignment of any Eurodollar Loan other than on the last day of the Interest Period applicable thereto as a result of a request by the Borrower pursuant to Section 2.19, then, in any such event, the Borrower shall compensate each Lender for the loss, cost and expense attributable to such event. In the case of a Eurodollar Loan, such loss, cost or expense to any Lender shall be deemed to include an amount determined by such Lender to be the excess, if any, of (i) the amount of interest that would have accrued on the principal amount of such Loan had such event not occurred, at the Adjusted LIBO Rate that would have been applicable to such Loan (excluding any “floor” applicable pursuant to the definition of Adjusted LIBO Rate), for the period from the date of such event to the last day of the then current Interest Period therefor (or, in the case of a failure to borrow, convert or continue, for the period that would have been the Interest Period for such Loan), over (ii) the amount of interest that would accrue on such principal amount for such period at the interest rate that such Lender would bid were it to bid, at the commencement of such period, for dollar deposits of a comparable amount and period from other banks in the Eurodollar market. A certificate of any Lender setting forth any amount or amounts that such Lender is entitled to receive pursuant to this Section 2.16 shall be delivered to the Borrower and shall be conclusive absent manifest error. The Borrower shall pay such Lender the amount shown as due on any such certificate within 10 days after receipt thereof. Notwithstanding the foregoing, no additional amounts shall be due and payable pursuant to this Section 2.16 to the extent that on the relevant due date the Borrower deposits in a Prepayment Account an amount equal to any payment of Eurodollar Loans otherwise required to be made on a date that is not the last day of the applicable Interest Period; provided that on the last day of the applicable Interest Period, the Applicable Agent shall be authorized, without any further action by or notice to or from the Borrower or any other Loan Party, to apply such amount to the prepayment of such Eurodollar Loans. For purposes of this Agreement, the term “Prepayment Account” means a non-interest bearing account established by the Borrower with the Applicable Agent and over which the Applicable Agent shall have exclusive dominion and control, including the right of withdrawal for application in accordance with this Section 2.16.

SECTION 2.17 Taxes.

(a) Any and all payments by or on account of any obligation of any Loan Party hereunder or under any other Loan Document shall be made without deduction or withholding for any Taxes, except to the extent required by applicable law. If any applicable law requires the deduction or withholding of any Tax from any such payment, then (i) the applicable withholding agent shall be entitled to make such deduction or withholding and shall pay the full amount deducted or withheld to the relevant Governmental Authority in accordance with applicable law, and (ii) to the extent such Tax is an Indemnified Tax or Other Tax, the sum payable by the applicable Loan Party shall be increased as necessary so that after making all required deductions and withholdings for Indemnified Taxes or Other Taxes (including deductions or withholdings applicable to additional sums payable under this Section 2.17), the Lender (or, in the case of any amount received by the Administrative Agent or the Revolver Agent for its own account, the Administrative Agent or Revolver Agent, as applicable) receives an amount equal to the sum it would have received had no such deduction or withholding been made.

 

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(b) Without duplication of other amounts payable by the Borrower under this Section 2.17, the Borrower shall timely pay to the relevant Governmental Authority in accordance with applicable law, or at the option of the Administrative Agent timely reimburse it for the payment of, any Other Taxes.

(c) Without duplication of amounts payable by the Borrower under Section 2.17, the Borrower shall indemnify the Administrative Agent, the Revolver Agent and each Lender, within 30 days after written demand therefor, for the full amount of any Indemnified Taxes on or with respect to any payment by or on account of any obligation of the Borrower hereunder or under any other Loan Document, or Other Taxes payable or paid by the Administrative Agent, the Revolver Agent or such Lender, as applicable, (including Indemnified Taxes or Other Taxes imposed or asserted on or attributable to amounts payable under this Section 2.17), and any reasonable expenses arising therefrom or with respect thereto, whether or not such Indemnified Taxes or Other Taxes were correctly or legally imposed or asserted by the relevant Governmental Authority. A certificate as to the amount of such payment or liability delivered to the Borrower by a Lender, or by the Administrative Agent or Revolver Agent on its own behalf or on behalf of a Lender, shall be conclusive absent manifest error. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in this Section 2.17(c), the Borrower shall not be required to indemnify the Administrative Agent, the Revolver Agent or any Lender pursuant to this Section 2.17(c) for any amount to the extent the Administrative Agent, the Revolver Agent or such Lender fails to notify the Borrower of such possible indemnification claim within 270 days after the Administrative Agent, the Revolver Agent or such Lender receives written notice from the applicable taxing authority of the specific tax assessment giving rise to such indemnification claim.

(d) As soon as practicable after any payment of Indemnified Taxes or Other Taxes by a Loan Party to a Governmental Authority pursuant to this Section 2.17, the Borrower shall deliver to the Administrative Agent the original or a certified copy of a receipt issued by such Governmental Authority evidencing such payment, if any, a copy of the return reporting such payment or other evidence of such payment reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent.

(e) (i) Any Lender that is entitled to an exemption from or reduction of withholding Tax with respect to payments under any Loan Document shall deliver to the Borrower and the Applicable Agent, on or prior to the Closing Date in the case of each Foreign Lender that is a signatory hereto, and on the date of assignment pursuant to which it becomes a Lender in the case of each other Lender and from time to time thereafter as reasonably requested by either of the Borrower or the Applicable Agent, such properly completed and executed documentation prescribed by applicable law or reasonably requested by the Borrower or the Applicable Agent as will permit such payments to be made without withholding or at a reduced rate. Each Lender shall, whenever a lapse in time or change in circumstances renders such documentation (including any specific documentation required below in this Section 2.17(e)) obsolete, expired or inaccurate in any material respect, deliver promptly to the Borrower and the Applicable Agent updated or other appropriate documentation (including any new documentation reasonably requested by the Borrower or the Applicable Agent) or promptly notify the Borrower and the Applicable Agent in writing of its inability to do so. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in the preceding two sentences, the completion, execution and submission of such documentation (other than such documentation set forth in Section 2.17(e)(ii)(A), (ii)(B) and (ii)(C) below) shall not be required if in the Lender’s reasonable judgment such completion, execution or submission would subject such Lender to any material unreimbursed cost or expense or would materially prejudice the legal or commercial position of such Lender.

 

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(ii) Without limiting the generality of the foregoing:

(A) each Lender that is a “United States person” within the meaning of Section 7701(a)(30) of the Code shall deliver to the Borrower and the Applicable Agent (and from time to time thereafter upon the reasonable request of the Borrower or the Applicable Agent) two duly completed and executed copies of IRS Form W-9, certifying that such Lender is exempt from U.S. federal backup withholding Tax,

(B) each Foreign Lender shall deliver to the Borrower and the Applicable Agent (and from time to time thereafter upon the reasonable request of the Borrower or the Applicable Agent) two (2) duly signed and properly completed copies of whichever of the following is applicable:

(1) IRS Form W-8BEN or W-8BEN-E, as applicable, claiming eligibility for benefits under an income tax treaty to which the United States is a party,

(2) IRS Form W-8ECI,

(3) in the case of a Foreign Lender claiming the benefits of the exemption for portfolio interest under Section 881(c) of the Code, (x) a certificate substantially in the form of Exhibit K-1 to the effect that such Foreign Lender is not (A) a “bank” within the meaning of Section 881(c)(3)(A) of the Code, (B) a “10 percent shareholder” of the Borrower within the meaning of Section 881(c)(3)(B) of the Code, or (C) a “controlled foreign corporation” described in Section 881(c)(3)(C) of the Code (a “U.S. Tax Compliance Certificate”) and (y) IRS Form W-8BEN or W-8BEN-E, as applicable, or

(4) to the extent a Foreign Lender is not the beneficial owner, executed copies of IRS Form W-8IMY, accompanied by IRS Form W-8ECI, IRS Form W-8BEN, IRS Form W-8BEN-E, a U.S. Tax Compliance Certificate substantially in the form of Exhibit K-2 or Exhibit K-3, IRS Form W-9, and/or other certification documents from each beneficial owner, as applicable; provided that if the Foreign Lender is a partnership and one or more direct or indirect partners of such Foreign Lender are claiming the portfolio interest exemption, such Foreign Lender may provide a U.S. Tax Compliance Certificate substantially in the form of Exhibit K-4 on behalf of each such direct and indirect partner;

(5) any other form prescribed by applicable law as a basis for claiming exemption from or a reduction in U.S. federal withholding Tax duly completed together with such supplementary documentation as may be prescribed by applicable law to permit the Borrower or the Applicable Agent to determine the withholding or deduction required to be made; and

 

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(C) if a payment made to a Lender under any Loan Document would be subject to U.S. federal withholding Tax imposed by FATCA if such Lender were to fail to comply with the applicable reporting requirements of FATCA (including those contained in Section 1471(b) or 1472(b) of the Code, as applicable), such Lender shall deliver to the Borrower and the Applicable Agent at the time or times prescribed by law and at such time or times reasonably requested by the Borrower or the Applicable Agent such documentation prescribed by applicable law (including as prescribed by Section 1471(b)(3)(C)(i) of the Code) and such additional documentation reasonably requested by the Borrower or the Applicable Agent as may be necessary for the Borrower and the Applicable Agent to comply with their obligations under FATCA and to determine whether such Lender has complied with such Lender’s obligations under FATCA or to determine the amount to deduct and withhold from such payment. Solely for purposes of this clause (C), “FATCA” shall include any amendments made to FATCA after the date of this Agreement.

(iii) Notwithstanding any other provision of this Section 2.17(e), a Lender shall not be required to deliver any form or other documentation that such Lender is not legally eligible to deliver.

(iv) Each Lender hereby authorizes the Applicable Agent to deliver to the Loan Parties and to any successor of such Applicable Agent any documentation provided by such Lender pursuant to this Section 2.17(e).

Each Lender agrees that if any form or certification it previously delivered expires or becomes obsolete or inaccurate in any respect, it shall update such form or certification, provide such successor form, or promptly notify the Borrower and the Applicable Agent in writing of its legal inability to do so.

(f) On or before the date the Applicable Agent becomes a party to this Agreement, the Applicable Agent (as well as any Person receiving any payment on behalf of the Applicable Agent) shall provide to the Borrower, two (2) duly signed and properly completed copies of (i) IRS Form W-9, or (ii) a U.S. branch withholding certificate on IRS Form W-8IMY evidencing its agreement with the Borrower to be treated as a “United States person” within the meaning of Section 7701(a)(30) of the Code with respect to amounts received on account of any Lender, and IRS Form W-8ECI (with respect to amounts received on its own account). At any time thereafter, the Applicable Agent shall provide updated documentation previously provided (or a successor form thereto) when any documentation previously delivered has expired or become obsolete or invalid or otherwise upon the reasonable request of the Borrower.

 

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(g) If the Administrative Agent, the Revolver Agent or a Lender determines, in its sole discretion exercised in good faith, that it has received a refund (whether in cash or by offset against Taxes otherwise due) of any Taxes as to which it has been indemnified (including by the payment of additional amounts) pursuant to this Section 2.17, it shall pay over such refund to the Borrower (but only to the extent of indemnity payments made, or additional amounts paid, by the Borrower under this Section 2.17 with respect to the Taxes giving rise to such refund), net of all out-of-pocket expenses (including Taxes) of the Administrative Agent, the Revolver Agent or such Lender and without interest (other than any interest paid by the relevant Governmental Authority with respect to such refund), provided that the Borrower, upon the request of the Administrative Agent, the Revolver Agent or such Lender, agrees to repay the amount paid over to the Borrower pursuant to this Section 2.17(g) (plus any penalties, interest or other charges imposed by the relevant Governmental Authority) to the Administrative Agent, the Revolver Agent or such Lender in the event the Administrative Agent, the Revolver Agent or such Lender is required to repay such refund to such Governmental Authority. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Section 2.17(g), in no event will the Administrative Agent, the Revolver Agent or any Lender be required to pay any amount to the Borrower or any other Loan Party pursuant to this Section 2.17(g) to the extent that such payment would place the Administrative Agent, the Revolver Agent or such Lender, as applicable, in a less favorable net after-Tax position than the Administrative Agent, the Revolver Agent or such Lender, as applicable would have been in if the Tax subject to the indemnification and giving rise to such refund had not been deducted, withheld or otherwise imposed and the indemnification payments or additional amounts with respect to such Tax had never been paid. This Section 2.17 shall not be construed to require the Administrative Agent, the Revolver Agent or any Lender to make available its Tax returns (or any other information relating to its Taxes that it deems confidential) to the Borrower or any other Person.

(h) For purposes of this Section 2.17, the term “Lender” includes any Swingline Lender and any Issuing Bank.

SECTION 2.18 Payments Generally; Pro Rata Treatment; Sharing of Setoffs.

(a) The Borrower shall make each payment required to be made by it hereunder or under any other Loan Document (whether of principal, interest, fees or reimbursement of LC Disbursements, or of amounts payable under Section 2.15, 2.16 or 2.17, or otherwise) at or prior to the time expressly required hereunder or under such other Loan Document for such payment (or, if no such time is expressly required, prior to 3:00 p.m., New York City time), on the date when due, in immediately available funds, without setoff or counterclaim. Any amounts received after such time on any date may, in the discretion of the Applicable Agent, be deemed to have been received on the next succeeding Business Day for purposes of calculating interest thereon. All such payments shall be made to the Applicable Agent at its offices at 383 Madison Avenue, New York, New York (or such other office as from time to time the Applicable Agent shall designate by notice to the Borrower), except payments to be made directly to any Issuing Bank or Swingline Lender as expressly provided herein and except that payments pursuant to Sections 2.15, 2.16, 2.17 and 9.03 shall be made directly to the Persons entitled thereto and payments pursuant to other Loan Documents shall be made to the Persons specified therein. The Applicable Agent shall distribute any such payments received by it for the account of any other Person to the appropriate recipient promptly following receipt thereof. If any payment under any Loan Document shall be due on a day that is not a Business Day, the date for payment shall be extended to the next succeeding Business Day, and, in the case of any payment accruing interest, interest thereon shall be payable for the period of such extension. All payments under each Loan Document shall be made in dollars.

 

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(b) If at any time insufficient funds are received by and available to the Applicable Agent to pay fully all amounts of principal, unreimbursed LC Disbursements, interest and fees then due hereunder, such funds shall be applied (i) first, towards payment of interest and fees then due hereunder, ratably among the parties entitled thereto in accordance with the amounts of interest and fees then due to such parties, and (ii) second, towards payment of principal and unreimbursed LC Disbursements then due hereunder, ratably among the parties entitled thereto in accordance with the amounts of principal and unreimbursed LC Disbursements then due to such parties.

(c) If any Lender shall, by exercising any right of setoff or counterclaim or otherwise except as expressly provided in this Agreement, obtain payment in respect of any principal of or interest on any of its Loans or participations in LC Disbursements or Swingline Loans resulting in such Lender receiving payment of a greater proportion of the aggregate amount of its Loans and participations in LC Disbursements and Swingline Loans and accrued interest thereon than the proportion received by any other Lender, then the Lender receiving such greater proportion shall purchase (for cash at face value) participations in the Loans and participations in LC Disbursements and Swingline Loans of other Lenders to the extent necessary so that the benefit of all such payments shall be shared by the Lenders ratably in accordance with the aggregate amount of principal of and accrued interest on their respective Loans and participations in LC Disbursements and Swingline Loans; provided that (i) if any such participations are purchased and all or any portion of the payment giving rise thereto is recovered, such participations shall be rescinded and the purchase price restored to the extent of such recovery, without interest, and (ii) the provisions of this paragraph shall not be construed to apply to any payment made by Holdings, the Borrower or any Subsidiary pursuant to and in accordance with the express terms of this Agreement or any payment obtained by a Lender as consideration for the assignment of or sale of a participation in any of its Loans or participations in LC Disbursements (but excluding, for the avoidance of doubt, prepayments pursuant to Section 2.11(i)) to any assignee or participant, other than to the Borrower or any Subsidiary (as to which the provisions of this paragraph shall apply). The Borrower consents to the foregoing and agrees, to the extent it may effectively do so under applicable law, that any Lender acquiring a participation pursuant to the foregoing arrangements may exercise against the Borrower rights of setoff and counterclaim with respect to such participation as fully as if such Lender were a direct creditor of the Borrower in the amount of such participation.

(d) Unless the Applicable Agent shall have received notice from the Borrower prior to the date on which any payment is due to the Applicable Agent for the account of the Lenders or any Issuing Bank hereunder that the Borrower will not make such payment, the Applicable Agent may assume that the Borrower has made such payment on such date in accordance herewith and may, in reliance upon such assumption and in its sole discretion, distribute to the Lenders or the applicable Issuing Bank, as applicable, the amount due. In such event, if the Borrower has not in fact made such payment, then each of the Lenders or the applicable Issuing Bank, as applicable, severally agrees to repay to the Applicable Agent forthwith on demand the amount so distributed to such Lender or such Issuing Bank with interest thereon, for each day from and including the date such amount is distributed to it to but excluding the date of payment to the Applicable Agent, at the greater of the Federal Funds Effective Rate and a rate determined by the Applicable Agent in accordance with banking industry rules on interbank compensation.

 

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(e) If any Lender shall fail to make any payment required to be made by it pursuant to Section 2.06(a), 2.18(d) or 9.03(c), then the Applicable Agent may, in its discretion (notwithstanding any contrary provision hereof), apply any amounts thereafter received by the Applicable Agent for the account of such Lender to satisfy such Lender’s obligations under such Sections until all such unsatisfied obligations are fully paid. If any Revolving Lender shall fail to make any payment required to be made by it pursuant to Section 2.04(c), 2.05(d) or (e), 2.06(a), 2.18(d) or 9.03(c), then the Revolver Agent may, in its discretion and notwithstanding any contrary provision hereof, (i) apply any amounts thereafter received by the Revolver Agent for the account of such Revolving Lender and for the benefit of the Revolver Agent, the Swingline Lender or the applicable Issuing Bank to satisfy such Revolving Lender’s obligations under such Sections until all such unsatisfied obligations are fully paid, and/or (ii) hold any such amounts in a segregated non-interest bearing account as cash collateral for, and application to, any future funding obligations of such Revolving Lender under such Sections, in the case of each of (i) and (ii) above, in any order as determined by the Revolver Agent in its discretion.

(f) Notwithstanding any contrary provision set forth herein or in any other Loan Document, all payments made by Loans Parties to Administrative Agent, Revolver Agent or Collateral Agent after any or all of the Obligations under the Loan Documents have been accelerated (so long as such acceleration has not been rescinded) or have otherwise matured, including proceeds of Collateral, shall be applied as follows:

first, to payment of costs, expenses and indemnities, of Administrative Agent, Collateral Agent and Revolver Agent payable or reimbursable by the Loan Parties under the Loan Documents;

second, to payment of attorney costs of the Lenders and Issuing Banks payable or reimbursable by the Loan Parties under this Agreement;

third, to payment of all accrued unpaid interest on the Loans, Letters of Credit and fees owed to the Lenders and Issuing Banks (whether or not accruing after the filing of any case under the Bankruptcy Code with respect to any Obligations and whether or not a claim for such post-filing or post-petition interest, fees, and charges is allowed or allowable in any such proceeding);

fourth, to payment of that portion of the Obligations constituting unpaid principal of the Loans and Letters of Credit (including to cash collateralize that portion of LC Exposure comprised of the aggregate undrawn amount of Letters of Credit), the Obligations under Secured Hedge Agreements and Cash Management Obligations under Cash Management Agreements;

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sixth, any remainder shall be for the account of and paid to whoever may be lawfully entitled thereto.

In carrying out the foregoing, (i) amounts received shall be applied to each category in the numerical order provided until exhausted prior to the application to the immediately succeeding category, (ii) each of the Lenders or other Persons entitled to payment shall receive an amount equal to its pro rata share of amounts available to be applied pursuant to clauses third, fourth, and fifth above and (iii) no payments by a Guarantor and no proceeds of Collateral of a Guarantor shall be applied to Obligations, the guaranty of which by such Guarantor would constitute an Excluded Swap Obligation.

SECTION 2.19 Mitigation Obligations; Replacement of Lenders.

(a) If any Lender requests compensation under Section 2.15, or if any Loan Party is required to pay any additional amount to any Lender or any Governmental Authority for the account of any Lender pursuant to Section 2.17, then such Lender shall use reasonable efforts to designate a different lending office for funding or booking its Loans hereunder or to assign its rights and obligations hereunder to another of its offices, branches or affiliates, if, in the judgment of such Lender, such designation or assignment (i) would eliminate or reduce amounts payable pursuant to Section 2.15 or 2.17, as applicable, in the future and (ii) would not subject such Lender to any unreimbursed cost or expense and would not otherwise be disadvantageous to such Lender. The Borrower hereby agrees to pay all reasonable costs and expenses incurred by any Lender in connection with any such designation or assignment.

(b) If any Lender is affected in the manner described in Section 2.14(a)(ii) and as a result thereof any of the actions described in such Section is required to be taken, or if any Lender requests compensation under Section 2.15, or if any Loan Party is required to pay any additional amount to any Lender or any Governmental Authority for the account of any Lender pursuant to Section 2.17, or if any Lender defaults in its obligation to fund Loans hereunder, then the Borrower may, at its sole expense and effort, upon notice to such Lender and the Applicable Agent, require such Lender to assign and delegate, without recourse (in accordance with and subject to the restrictions contained in Section 9.04), all its interests, rights and obligations under this Agreement to an assignee that shall assume such obligations (which assignee may be another Lender, if a Lender accepts such assignment); provided that (i) the Borrower shall have received the prior written consent of the Applicable Agent, which consent shall not unreasonably be withheld or delayed, (ii) such Lender shall have received payment of an amount equal to the outstanding principal of its Loans and participations in LC Disbursements and Swingline Loans, accrued interest thereon, accrued fees and all other amounts payable to it hereunder, from the assignee (to the extent of such outstanding principal and accrued interest and fees) or the Borrower (in the case of all other amounts) and (iii) in the case of any such assignment resulting from a claim for compensation under Section 2.15 or payments required to be made pursuant to Section 2.17, such assignment will result in a material reduction in such compensation or payments. A Lender shall not be required to make any such assignment and delegation if, prior thereto, as a result of a waiver by such Lender or otherwise, the circumstances entitling the Borrower to require such assignment and delegation cease to apply.

 

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SECTION 2.20 Incremental Extensions of Credit.

(a) At any time or from time to time after the Closing Date, the Borrower may by written notice to the Administrative Agent, elect to request (i) one or more increases to the existing Revolving Commitments which may be under a new revolving credit facility or may be part of an existing Class of Revolving Commitments (any such increase, the “Incremental Revolving Commitments”); or (ii) prior to the Latest Maturity Date, the establishment of one or more new term loan commitments which may be under a new term facility or may be part of an existing Class of Term Loans (the “Incremental Term Commitments”, and together with the Incremental Revolving Commitments, the “Incremental Facilities”). The aggregate amount of all such Incremental Facilities shall not exceed the sum of (A) the greater of (x) $70,000,000 and (y) 100% of Consolidated EBITDA as of the last day of the most recently ended four fiscal quarter period for which financial statements are available, plus (B) an additional amount such that, in the case of this clause (B) only, after giving Pro Forma Effect thereto (including the use of proceeds thereof and other customary events and assuming that any Incremental Revolving Commitments established at such time are fully funded), (x) if such Incremental Facility is secured on a “first lien” basis pari passu with the Liens on Collateral securing the Obligations, the First Lien Net Leverage Ratio shall be no greater than 3.00:1.00 (the “First Lien Incremental Test Ratio”), (y) if such Incremental Facility is secured on a junior lien basis to the Liens on Collateral securing the Obligations, the Secured Net Leverage Ratio shall be no greater than 4.25:1.00 (the “Junior Lien Incremental Test Ratio”), and (z) if such Incremental Facility is unsecured, the Total Net Leverage Ratio shall be no greater 4.25:1.00 (the “Unsecured Incremental Test Ratio” and, together with the First Lien Incremental Test Ratio and the Junior Lien Incremental Test Ratio, the “Incremental Test Ratios”); provided, that for purposes of such calculation of the First Lien Net Leverage Ratio, Secured Net Leverage Ratio and Total Net Leverage Ratio, as applicable, (1) the proceeds of the applicable Incremental Facility shall not be included in the determination of unrestricted cash and Permitted Investments netted for the purposes of determining the applicable Incremental Test Ratio and (2) such ratio shall be calculated as of the last day of the most recently ended Test Period (in each case, excluding cash proceeds of such Incremental Facilities from any unrestricted cash permitted to be netted in the calculation of such ratio), plus (C) to the extent not financed with Long-Term Indebtedness, an amount equal to all voluntary prepayments of the Term Loans, any Incremental Extensions of Credit and, to the extent accompanied by a permanent reduction of the Revolving Commitments, voluntary prepayments of the Revolving Credit Loans (it being understood that, unless the Borrower otherwise elects in writing to the Administrative Agent, (I) Borrower shall be deemed to have utilized amounts under clause (B) (to the extent compliant therewith) prior to utilization of amounts under clause (A) or (C), (II) loans may be incurred under clauses (A), (B) and (C) above, and proceeds from any such incurrence under each of clauses (A), (B) and (C) above, may be utilized in a single transaction by first calculating the incurrence under clause (B) above and then calculating the incurrence under clause (A) and/or (C) above, together with any other fixed dollar basket set forth herein) and (III) the Borrower may reclassify utilizations among clauses (A), (B) and (C) above if, at the time of such reclassification, the Borrower would be permitted to incur the aggregate principal amount of Indebtedness being so reclassified (it being understood and agreed that such reclassification shall be automatic if at the end of any fiscal quarter such reclassification would then be permitted).

 

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(b) On the applicable date (each, an “Incremental Facility Closing Date”) specified in the applicable Additional Credit Extension Amendment, subject to the satisfaction of the terms and conditions in this Section 2.20 and in the applicable Additional Credit Extension Amendment, (i) (A) each Incremental Term Lender of such Class shall make a Loan to the Borrower (an “Incremental Term Loan”) in an amount equal to its Incremental Term Commitment of such Class and (B) each Incremental Term Lender of such Class shall become a Lender hereunder with respect to the Incremental Term Commitment of such Class and the Incremental Term Loans of such Class made pursuant thereto and (ii) (A) each Incremental Revolving Lender of such Class shall make its Commitment available to the Borrower (when borrowed, an “Incremental Revolving Loan” and collectively with any Incremental Term Loan, “Incremental Extensions of Credit”) in an amount equal to its Incremental Revolving Commitment of such Class and (B) each Incremental Revolving Lender of such Class shall become a Lender hereunder with respect to the Incremental Revolving Commitment of such Class and the Incremental Revolving Loans of such Class made pursuant thereto.

(c) Each Incremental Loan Request from the Borrower pursuant to this Section 2.20 shall set forth the requested amount and proposed terms of the relevant Incremental Term Loans or Incremental Revolving Commitments. Incremental Term Loans may be made, and Incremental Revolving Commitments may be provided, by any existing Lender (but no existing Lender will have an obligation to make any Incremental Commitment) or by any Additional Lender (each such existing Lender or Additional Lender providing such Commitment or Loan, an “Incremental Revolving Lender” or “Incremental Term Lender”, as applicable, and, collectively, the “Incremental Lenders”); provided that the Applicable Agent, the Swingline Lender and each Issuing Bank shall have consented (not to be unreasonably withheld or delayed) to such Additional Lender’s providing such Incremental Revolving Commitments, to the extent such consent, if any, would be required under Section 9.04(b) for an assignment of Revolving Commitments, as applicable, to such Lender or Additional Lender.

(d) The effectiveness of any Additional Credit Extension Amendment pursuant to this Section 2.20, and the Incremental Commitments thereunder, shall be subject to the satisfaction on the applicable date specified therein (the “Incremental Amendment Date”) of each of the following conditions, together with any other conditions set forth in the applicable Additional Credit Extension Amendment:

(i) after giving effect to such Incremental Commitments, the conditions of Section 4.02 shall be satisfied; provided, that, in connection with any Incremental Commitment, which is being used to finance a Limited Condition Transaction, the Incremental Lenders party to such Additional Credit Extension Amendment shall be permitted to waive or limit (or not require the satisfaction of) in full or in part any of the conditions set forth in Section 4.02(a) without the consent of the existing Lenders,

(ii) each Incremental Term Commitment shall be in an aggregate principal amount that is not less than $1,000,000 and shall be in an increment of $500,000 and each Incremental Revolving Commitment shall be in an aggregate principal amount that is not less than $1,000,000 and shall be in an increment of $500,000,

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(iv) to the extent reasonably requested by the Administrative Agent, receipt by the Administrative Agent of (A) customary legal opinions, board resolutions and officers’ certificates (including solvency certificates) consistent (and in no event more extensive) with those delivered on the Closing Date (conformed as appropriate) other than changes to such legal opinions resulting from a change in law, change in fact or change to counsel’s form of opinion reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent and (B) reaffirmation agreements and/or such amendments to the Security Documents as may be reasonably requested by the Administrative Agent in order to ensure that such Incremental Lenders are provided with the benefit of the applicable Loan Documents.

(e) The terms, provisions and documentation of the Incremental Term Loans and Incremental Term Commitments or the Incremental Revolving Loans and Incremental Revolving Commitments, as the case may be, of any Class shall be as agreed between the Borrower and the applicable Incremental Lenders providing such Incremental Commitments, and except as otherwise set forth herein, to the extent not identical to any Class of Term Loans or Revolving Commitments, as applicable, each existing on the Incremental Facility Closing Date, shall be consistent with clauses (i) through (iii) below, as applicable, or otherwise reasonably satisfactory to the Applicable Agent (except for covenants or other provisions (a) conformed (or added) in the Loan Documents pursuant to the related Additional Credit Extension Amendment, (x) in the case of any Class of Incremental Term Loans and Incremental Term Commitments, for the benefit of the Term Lenders and (y) in the case of any Class of Incremental Revolving Loans and Incremental Revolving Commitments, for the benefit of the Revolving Lenders or (b) applicable only to periods after the Latest Maturity Date as of the Incremental Amendment Date); provided that in the case of (x) Incremental Term Commitments that are part of an existing Class of Term Loans (“Term Loan Increase”) or (y) Incremental Revolving Commitments that are part of an existing Class of Revolving Commitments (“Revolving Commitment Increase”), the terms, provisions and documentation (other than the Additional Credit Extension Amendment evidencing such increase) of such Term Loan Increase or a Revolving Commitment Increase shall be identical (other than with respect to upfront fees, OID or similar fees, it being understood that, if required to consummate such Term Loan Increase or Revolving Commitment Increase transaction, the interest rate margins and rate floors may be increased, any call protection provision may be made more favorable to the applicable existing Lenders and additional upfront or similar fees may be payable to the lenders providing the Term Loan Increases or Revolving Commitment Increases, as applicable) to the applicable Class of Term Loans or Revolving Commitments being increased, in each case, as existing on the Incremental Facility Closing Date. In connection with any Incremental Term Loans that constitute part of the same Class as the Initial Term Loans, the Borrower and the Administrative Agent shall be permitted to adjust the rate of prepayment in respect of such Class such that the Term Lenders holding Initial Term Loans comprising part of such Class continue to receive a payment that is not less than the same dollar amount that such Term Lenders would have received absent the incurrence of such Incremental Term Loans. In any event:

(i) the Incremental Term Loans:

(A) (I) shall rank pari passu or junior in right of payment with the Obligations and (II) shall either be secured by the Collateral or unsecured and, if so secured shall rank pari passu or junior in right of security with the Obligations (and, subject to a subordination agreement (if subject to payment subordination), or (if subject to lien subordination) a Junior Lien Intercreditor Agreement),

 

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(B) as of the Incremental Amendment Date, shall not have a final scheduled maturity date earlier than the Latest Maturity Date for then-existing Initial Term Loans,

(C) as of the Incremental Amendment Date, shall have a Weighted Average Life to Maturity not shorter than the remaining Weighted Average Life to Maturity of the Initial Term Loans,

(D) shall have an Applicable Rate, and subject to clauses (e)(i)(B) and (e)(i)(C) above, amortization determined by the Borrower and the applicable Incremental Term Lenders; provided the Applicable Rate and amortization for such Incremental Term Loans shall be (x) the Applicable Rate and amortization for the Class being increased or (y) in the case of the Applicable Rate, higher than the Applicable Rate for the Class being increased as long as the Applicable Rate for the Class being increased shall be automatically increased as and to the extent necessary to eliminate such deficiency,

(E) shall have fees determined by the Borrower and the applicable arrangers for such Incremental Term Loan, and

(F) may participate (I) in any voluntary prepayments of any Class of Term Loans hereunder, in whole or in part, as selected by the Borrower in its sole discretion and subject to the requirements of Section 2.11 and (II) on a pro rata basis or less than pro rata basis (but not on a greater than pro rata basis (except for prepayments with Net Proceeds from any event described in clause (c) of the definition of the term “Prepayment Event”)) in any mandatory prepayments of Term Loans hereunder,

(ii) the Incremental Revolving Commitments and Incremental Revolving Loans:

(A) (I) shall rank pari passu or junior in right of payment with the Obligations and (II) shall either be secured by the Collateral or unsecured and, if so secured, shall rank pari passu or junior in right of security with the Obligations,

(B) (I) shall not have a final scheduled maturity date or commitment reduction date earlier than the Latest Maturity Date for then-existing Revolving Commitments and (II) shall not have any scheduled amortization or mandatory commitment reduction prior to the Latest Maturity Date for then-existing Revolving Commitments,

(C) shall provide that the borrowing and repayment (except for (1) payments of interest and fees at different rates on Incremental Revolving Commitments (and related outstandings), (2) repayments required upon the Maturity Date of the Incremental Revolving Commitments and (3) repayment made in connection with a permanent repayment and termination of commitments (in

 

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accordance with clause (E) below)) of Loans with respect to Incremental Revolving Commitments after the associated Incremental Facility Closing Date shall be made on a pro rata basis or less than a pro rata basis (but not greater than a pro rata basis) with all Revolving Commitments then existing on the Incremental Facility Closing Date,

(D) may be elected to be included as additional participations under the Additional Credit Extension Amendment, subject to (other than in the case of a Revolving Commitment Increase) the consent of the Swingline Lender and the Issuing Banks, in which case, on the Incremental Amendment Date all Swingline Loans and Letters of Credit shall be participated on a pro rata basis by all Revolving Lenders in accordance with their percentage of the Revolving Commitments existing after giving effect to such Additional Credit Extension Amendment; provided, such election may be made conditional upon the maturity of one or more other Revolving Commitments; provided, further, that in connection with such election the Swingline Lender or any Issuing Bank may, in its sole discretion and with the consent of the Revolver Agent (not to be unreasonably withheld or delayed), agree in the applicable Additional Credit Extension Amendment to increase the Swingline Sublimit or the Letter of Credit Sublimit so long as such increase does not exceed the amount of the additional Incremental Revolving Commitments,

(E) may provide that the permanent repayment of Revolving Loans with respect to, and termination of, Incremental Revolving Commitments after the associated Incremental Facility Closing Date be made on a pro rata basis or less than pro rata basis with all other Revolving Commitments,

(F) shall provide that assignments and participations of Incremental Revolving Commitments and Incremental Revolving Loans shall be governed by the same assignment and participation provisions applicable to Revolving Commitments and Revolving Loans then existing on the Incremental Facility Closing Date,

(G) shall have an Applicable Rate determined by the Borrower and the applicable Incremental Revolving Lenders; provided the Applicable Rate for a Revolving Commitment Increase shall be (x) the Applicable Rate for the Class being increased or (y) higher than the Applicable Rate for the Class being increased as long as the Applicable Rate for the Class being increased shall be automatically increased as and to the extent necessary to eliminate such deficiency, and

(H) shall have fees determined by the Borrower and the applicable arrangers of the Incremental Revolving Commitment, and

(iii) the Yield applicable to the Incremental Term Loans or Incremental Revolving Loans of each Class shall be determined by the Borrower and the applicable Incremental Lenders and shall be set forth in each applicable Additional Credit Extension Amendment.

 

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(f) Commitments in respect of Incremental Term Loans and Incremental Revolving Commitments shall become additional Commitments pursuant to an Additional Credit Extension Amendment, executed by the Borrower, each Incremental Lender providing such Commitments, the Applicable Agent and, for purposes of any election and/or increase to the Swingline Sublimit or the Letter of Credit Sublimit pursuant to Section 2.20(e)(ii)(D), the Swingline Lender, the Revolver Agent and each Issuing Bank. The Additional Credit Extension Amendment may, without the consent of any other Loan Party, Agent or Lender, effect such amendments to this Agreement and the other Loan Documents as may be necessary or appropriate, in the reasonable opinion of the Applicable Agent and the Borrower, to effect the provisions of this Section 2.20, including amendments as deemed necessary by the Applicable Agent in its reasonable judgment to effect any lien or payment subordination and associated rights of the applicable Lenders to the extent any Incremental Extensions of Credit are to rank junior in right of security or payment or to address technical issues relating to funding and payments. The Borrower will use the proceeds of the Incremental Term Loans and Incremental Revolving Commitments for any purpose not prohibited by this Agreement.

(g) Upon any Incremental Amendment Date on which Incremental Revolving Commitments are effected through a Revolving Commitment Increase pursuant to this Section 2.20, (a) each of the existing Revolving Lenders shall assign to each of the Incremental Revolving Lenders, and each of the Incremental Revolving Lenders shall purchase from each of the existing Revolving Lenders, at the principal amount thereof, such interests in the Incremental Revolving Loans outstanding on such Incremental Amendment Date as shall be necessary in order that, after giving effect to all such assignments and purchases, such Revolving Loans will be held by existing Revolving Lenders and Incremental Revolving Lenders ratably in accordance with their Revolving Commitments after giving effect to the addition of such Incremental Revolving Commitments to the existing Revolving Commitments, (b) each Incremental Revolving Commitment shall be deemed for all purposes a Revolving Commitment and each Loan made thereunder shall be deemed, for all purposes, a Revolving Loan and (c) each Incremental Revolving Lender shall become a Lender with respect to the Incremental Revolving Commitments and all matters relating thereto. The Administrative Agent, the Revolver Agent and the Lenders hereby agree that the minimum borrowing and prepayment requirements in this Agreement shall not apply to the transactions effected pursuant to the immediately preceding sentence.

(h) The Incremental Term Loans made under each Term Loan Increase shall be made by the applicable Lenders participating therein pursuant to the procedures set forth in Section 2.01 and 2.02 (as may be conformed as necessary or appropriate as reasonably determined by the Administrative Agent) and on the date of the making of such Incremental Term Loans, and notwithstanding anything to the contrary set forth in Section 2.01 and 2.02, such Incremental Term Loans shall be added to (and form part of) each Borrowing of outstanding Term Loans under the applicable Class of Term Loans on a pro rata basis (based on the relative sizes of the various outstanding Borrowings), so that each Lender under such Class will participate proportionately in each then outstanding Borrowing of Term Loans of such Class.

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SECTION 2.21 Extended Term Loans and Extended Revolving Commitments.

(a) The Borrower may at any time and from time to time request that all or a portion of the Term Loans of any Class (an “Existing Term Loan Class”) be amended to extend the scheduled maturity date(s) of any payment of principal with respect to all or a portion of any principal amount of such Term Loans (any such Term Loans which have been so converted, “Extended Term Loans”) and to provide for other terms consistent with this Section 2.21. In order to establish any Extended Term Loans, the Borrower shall provide a notice to the Administrative Agent (who shall provide a copy of such notice to each of the Lenders under the Existing Term Loan Class) (an “Extension Request”) setting forth the proposed terms of the Extended Term Loans to be established, which shall be consistent with the Term Loans under the Existing Term Loan Class from which such Extended Term Loans are to be converted except that:

(i) all or any of the scheduled amortization payments of principal of the Extended Term Loans may be delayed to later dates than the scheduled amortization payments of principal of the Term Loans of such Existing Term Loan Class to the extent provided in the applicable Additional Credit Extension Amendment,

(ii) the Yield with respect to the Extended Term Loans (whether in the form of interest rate margin, upfront fees, original issue discount or otherwise) may be different than the Yield for the Term Loans of such Existing Term Loan Class and upfront fees may be paid to the existing Term Lenders, in each case, to the extent provided in the applicable Additional Credit Extension Amendment, and

(iii) the Additional Credit Extension Amendment may provide for other covenants and terms that apply only after the Initial Term Loan Maturity Date.

(b) Any Extended Term Loans converted pursuant to any Extension Request shall be designated a series of Extended Term Loans for all purposes of this Agreement; provided that, subject to the limitations set forth in clause (a) above, any Extended Term Loans converted from an Existing Term Loan Class may, to the extent provided in the applicable Additional Credit Extension Amendment and consistent with the requirements set forth above, be designated as an increase in any previously established Class of Term Loans.

(c) The Borrower shall provide the applicable Extension Request at least five (5) Business Days prior to the date on which Lenders under the applicable Existing Term Loan Class are requested to respond. No Lender shall have any obligation to agree to have any of its Term Loans of any Existing Term Loan Class converted into Extended Term Loans pursuant to any Extension Request. Any Lender wishing to have all or a portion of its Term Loans under the Existing Term Loan Class subject to such Extension Request (such Lender an “Extending Term Lender”) converted into Extended Term Loans shall notify the Administrative Agent (an “Extension Election”) on or prior to the date specified in such Extension Request of the amount of its Term Loans under the Existing Term Loan Class which it has elected to request be converted into Extended Term Loans (subject to any minimum denomination requirements reasonably imposed by the Administrative Agent and acceptable to the Borrower). In the event that the

 

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aggregate amount of Term Loans under the Existing Term Loan Class subject to Extension Elections exceeds the amount of Extended Term Loans requested pursuant to an Extension Request, Term Loans of the Existing Term Loan Class subject to Extension Elections shall be converted to Extended Term Loans on a pro rata basis based on the amount of Term Loans included in each such Extension Election (subject to any minimum denomination requirements reasonably imposed by the Administrative Agent and acceptable to the Borrower).

(d) The Borrower may, with the consent of each Person providing an Extended Revolving Commitment, the Revolver Agent and any Person acting as swingline lender or issuing bank under such Extended Revolving Commitments, amend this Agreement pursuant to an Additional Credit Extension Amendment to provide for Extended Revolving Commitments and to incorporate the terms of such Extended Revolving Commitments into this Agreement on substantially the same basis as provided with respect to the Revolving Commitments; provided that (i) the establishment of any such Extended Revolving Commitments shall be accompanied by a corresponding reduction in the Revolving Commitments and (ii) any reduction in the Revolving Commitments may, at the option of the Borrower, be directed to a disproportional reduction of the Revolving Commitments of any Lender providing an Extended Revolving Commitment. No Lender shall have any obligation to provide Extended Revolving Commitments.

(e) Extended Term Loans and Extended Revolving Commitments shall be established pursuant to an Additional Credit Extension Amendment to this Agreement among the Borrower, the Applicable Agent and each Extending Term Lender or Lender providing an Extended Revolving Commitment which shall be consistent with the provisions set forth above (but which shall not require the consent of any other Lender other than those consents provided in this Section 2.21). Each Additional Credit Extension Amendment shall be binding on the Lenders, the Loan Parties and the other parties hereto. In connection with any Additional Credit Extension Amendment, the Loan Parties and the Administrative Agent shall enter into such amendments to the Security Documents as may be reasonably requested by the Administrative Agent (which shall not require any consent from any Lender other than those consents provided pursuant to this Agreement) in order to ensure that the Extended Term Loans or Extended Revolving Commitments are provided with the benefit of the applicable Security Documents and shall deliver such other documents, certificates and opinions of counsel in connection therewith as may be reasonably requested by the Administrative Agent.

(f) The provisions of this Section 2.21 shall override any provision of Section 9.02 to the contrary. No conversion of Loans pursuant to any extension in accordance with this Section 2.21 shall constitute a voluntary or mandatory payment or prepayment for purposes of this Agreement.

SECTION 2.22 Defaulting Lenders.

Notwithstanding any provision of this Agreement to the contrary, if any Revolving Lender becomes a Defaulting Lender, then the following provisions shall apply for so long as such Lender is a Defaulting Lender:

(a) fees shall cease to accrue on the unfunded portion of the Revolving Commitment of such Defaulting Lender pursuant to Section 2.12(a),

 

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(b) the Revolving Commitment, Revolving Exposure, LC Exposure or Swingline Exposure of such Defaulting Lender shall not be included in determining whether the Required Lenders have taken or may take any action hereunder (including any consent to any amendment, waiver or other modification pursuant to Section 9.02); provided that this clause (ii) shall not apply to the vote of a Defaulting Lender, except to the extent the consent of such Lender would be required under clause (i), (ii), (iii), (iv) or (v) in the proviso to the first sentence of Section 9.02(b),

(c) if any Swingline Exposure or LC Exposure exists at the time such Lender becomes a Defaulting Lender then:

(i) so long as no Event of Default has occurred and is continuing as to which the Revolver Agent has received written notice from the Borrower or a Revolving Lender, all or any part of the Swingline Exposure and LC Exposure of such Defaulting Lender shall be reallocated among the non-Defaulting Lenders in accordance with their respective Applicable Percentages but only to the extent that the sum of all non-Defaulting Lenders’ Revolving Exposures plus such Defaulting Lender’s Swingline Exposure and LC Exposure does not exceed the total of all non-Defaulting Lenders’ Revolving Commitments,

(ii) if the reallocation described in clause (i) above cannot, or can only partially, be effected, the Borrower shall within one (1) Business Day following notice by the Revolver Agent (x) first, prepay such Swingline Exposure and (y) second, cash collateralize, for the benefit of the applicable Issuing Bank only, the Borrower’s obligations corresponding to such Defaulting Lender’s LC Exposure (after giving effect to any partial reallocation pursuant to clause (i) above) in accordance with the procedures set forth in Section 2.05(j) for so long as such LC Exposure is outstanding,

(iii) if the Borrower cash collateralizes any portion of such Defaulting Lender’s LC Exposure pursuant to clause (ii) above, the Borrower shall not be required to pay any fees to such Defaulting Lender pursuant to Section 2.12(b) with respect to such Defaulting Lender’s LC Exposure during the period such Defaulting Lender’s LC Exposure is cash collateralized,

(iv) if the LC Exposure of the non-Defaulting Lenders is reallocated pursuant to clause (i) above, then the fees payable to the Lenders pursuant to Section 2.12(a) and Section 2.12(b) shall be adjusted in accordance with such non-Defaulting Lenders’ Applicable Percentages, and

(v) if all or any portion of such Defaulting Lender’s LC Exposure is neither reallocated nor cash collateralized pursuant to clause (i) or (ii) above, then, without prejudice to any rights or remedies of the applicable Issuing Bank or any other Lender hereunder, all fees that otherwise would have been payable to such Defaulting Lender (solely with respect to the portion of such Defaulting Lender’s Revolving Commitment that was utilized by such LC Exposure) and letter of credit fees payable under Section 2.12(b) with respect to such Defaulting Lender’s LC Exposure shall be payable to the applicable Issuing Bank until and to the extent that such LC Exposure is reallocated and/or cash collateralized, and

 

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(vi) so long as such Lender is a Defaulting Lender, the Swingline Lender shall not be required to fund any Swingline Loan and the applicable Issuing Bank shall not be required to issue, amend, extend or increase any Letter of Credit, unless it is satisfied that the related exposure and the Defaulting Lender’s then outstanding LC Exposure will be 100% covered by the Commitments of the non-Defaulting Lenders and/or cash collateral will be provided by the Borrower in accordance with Section 2.22(c), and participating interests in any newly made Swingline Loan or any newly issued or increased Letter of Credit shall be allocated among non-Defaulting Lenders in a manner consistent with Section 2.22(c)(i) (and such Defaulting Lender shall not participate therein).

(d) If (i) a Bankruptcy Event with respect to a parent entity of any Lender shall occur following the Closing Date and for so long as such event shall continue or (ii) the Swingline Lender or the applicable Issuing Bank has a good faith belief that any Lender has defaulted in fulfilling its obligations under one or more other agreements in which such Lender commits to extend credit, the Swingline Lender shall not be required to fund any Swingline Loan and the applicable Issuing Bank shall not be required to issue, amend or increase any Letter of Credit, unless the Swingline Lender or the Issuing Bank, as the case may be, shall have entered into arrangements with the Borrower or such Lender, satisfactory to the Swingline Lender or such Issuing Bank, as the case may be, to defease any risk to it in respect of such Lender hereunder.

(e) In the event that the Revolver Agent, the Borrower, the Swingline Lender and the Issuing Banks each agrees that a Defaulting Lender has adequately remedied all matters that caused such Lender to be a Defaulting Lender, then the Swingline Exposure and LC Exposure of the Revolving Lenders shall be readjusted to reflect the inclusion of such Lender’s Revolving Commitment and on such date such Lender shall purchase at par such of the Revolving Loans of the other Revolving Lenders as the Revolver Agent shall determine may be necessary in order for such Lender to hold Revolving Loans in accordance with its Applicable Percentage (whereupon such Lender shall cease to be a Defaulting Lender).

ARTICLE III

Representations and Warranties

The Borrower represents and warrants to the Lenders that:

SECTION 3.01 Organization; Power. Each of Holdings, the Borrower and the Restricted Subsidiaries (a) is duly organized or formed, validly existing and in good standing under the laws of the jurisdiction of its incorporation or organization (to the extent such concept exists in such jurisdiction) except, solely with respect to any Restricted Subsidiary that is not a Material Subsidiary where the failure to do so, individually or in the aggregate, is not reasonably likely to result in a Material Adverse Effect, (b) except where the failure to do so, individually or

 

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in the aggregate, is not reasonably likely to result in a Material Adverse Effect, has the requisite power and authority and all governmental rights, qualifications, approvals, authorizations, permits, accreditations, licenses and franchises material to the business of the Borrower and the Restricted Subsidiaries taken as a whole that are necessary to own its assets, to carry on its business as now conducted and as proposed to be conducted and to execute, deliver and perform its obligations under each Loan Document to which it is a party and (c) except where the failure to do so, individually or in the aggregate, is not reasonably likely to result in a Material Adverse Effect, is qualified to do business in, and is in good standing in, every jurisdiction where such qualification is required.

SECTION 3.02 Authorization; Enforceability. This Agreement and the other Loan Documents to be entered into by each Loan Party and the performance by each Loan Party of its obligations under the Loan Documents have been duly authorized by all necessary corporate or other action and, if required, stockholder action. This Agreement has been duly executed and delivered by each of Holdings and the Borrower and constitutes, and each other Loan Document to which any Loan Party is to be a party, when executed and delivered by such Loan Party, will constitute, a legal, valid and binding obligation of Holdings, the Borrower or such Loan Party, as applicable, enforceable in accordance with its terms, subject to applicable bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium or other laws affecting creditors’ rights generally and subject to general principles of equity, regardless of whether considered in a proceeding in equity or at law.

SECTION 3.03 Governmental Approvals; No Conflicts. The entering into and performance of the Loan Documents as in effect on the Closing Date (a) do not require any consent or approval of, registration or filing with, or any other action by, any Governmental Authority, except such as have been obtained or made and are in full force and effect and except filings necessary to perfect Liens created under the Loan Documents, (b) will not violate any Requirement of Law applicable to Holdings, the Borrower or any of the Restricted Subsidiaries, as applicable, (c) will not violate or result in a default under any indenture or other material agreement or instrument binding upon Holdings, the Borrower or any of the Restricted Subsidiaries or any of their assets, or give rise to a right thereunder to require any payment to be made by Holdings, the Borrower or any of the Restricted Subsidiaries or give rise to a right of, or result in, termination, cancellation or acceleration of any material obligation thereunder and (d) will not result in the creation or imposition of any Lien on any asset of Holdings, the Borrower or any of the Restricted Subsidiaries, except Liens created under the Loan Documents.

SECTION 3.04 Financial Condition; No Material Adverse Effect.

(a) The Borrower has heretofore delivered to the Lenders audited financial statements for the fiscal years ended December 31, 2020 and unaudited financial statements for the fiscal quarter ended June 30, 2021. Such financial statements present fairly, in all material respects, the financial position and results of operations and cash flows of Borrower and its Subsidiaries as of such dates and for such periods in accordance with GAAP consistently applied.

(b) Since December 31, 2020, there has been no event or circumstance, either individually or in the aggregate, that has had or could reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.

 

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SECTION 3.05 Properties.

(a) Each of Holdings, the Borrower and the Restricted Subsidiaries has good title to, or valid leasehold interests in, all its real and personal property material to its business, free and clear of all Liens, except for Permitted Liens and minor defects in title that do not interfere in any material respect with its ability to conduct its business or to utilize such properties for their intended purposes, except in each case, where the failure to have such title or interest could not reasonably expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.

(b) Each of Holdings, the Borrower and the Restricted Subsidiaries owns, licenses or possesses the right to use all trademarks, trade names, copyrights, patents and other intellectual property material to its business, except to the extent that, individually or in the aggregate, failure to so own, license or possess would not be reasonably likely to result in a Material Adverse Effect. The conduct of the businesses of Holdings, the Borrower and the Restricted Subsidiaries does not infringe upon the intellectual property rights of any other Person, except for any such infringements that, individually or in the aggregate, are not reasonably likely to result in a Material Adverse Effect.

SECTION 3.06 Litigation and Environmental Matters.

(a) As of the Closing Date, except as set forth on Schedule 3.06 or could not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect, there are no actions, suits or proceedings by or before any arbitrator or Governmental Authority pending against or, to the knowledge of Holdings, the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary, threatened against or affecting Holdings, the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary, including any relating to any Environmental Law.

(b) Except with respect to any other matters that, individually or in the aggregate, are not reasonably likely to result in a Material Adverse Effect, (A) neither Holdings, the Borrower nor any Restricted Subsidiary (i) has failed to comply with any applicable Environmental Law or to obtain, maintain or comply with any permit, license or other approval required under any Environmental Law, (ii) has become subject to any Environmental Liability, (iii) knows of any basis for any Environmental Liability or (iv) has received any written claim or notice of violation or of potential responsibility regarding any alleged violation of or liability under any Environmental Law, and (B)(i) there has been no Release of Hazardous Materials at, on, under or from any property currently, or to the knowledge of Holdings, the Borrower or any of the Restricted Subsidiaries, formerly owned, leased or operated by any of them which could reasonably be expected to result in liability under any Environmental Law on the part of any of them, and (ii) all Hazardous Materials generated, used or stored at, or transported for treatment or disposal from, any properties currently, or to the knowledge of Holdings, Borrower and the Restricted Subsidiaries, formerly owned, leased or operated by Holdings, the Borrower or any of the Subsidiaries have been disposed of in a manner that could not reasonably be expected to result in liability under any Environmental Law on the part of any of them.

 

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SECTION 3.07 Compliance with Laws and Agreements. Each of Holdings, the Borrower and the Restricted Subsidiaries is in compliance with all Requirements of Law applicable to it or its property or operations and all material indentures, agreements and other instruments binding upon it or its property, except where failure to comply, individually or in the aggregate, would not have a Material Adverse Effect.

SECTION 3.08 Investment Company Status. Neither Holdings, the Borrower, nor any Restricted Subsidiary that is a Domestic Subsidiary is required to be registered as an “investment company” as defined in, or subject to regulation under, the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended.

SECTION 3.09 Taxes. Each of Holdings, the Borrower and the Restricted Subsidiaries has timely filed or caused to be filed all federal and other material Tax returns and reports required to have been filed and has paid or caused to be paid all Taxes required to have been paid by it, except (a) any Taxes that are being contested in compliance with Section 5.05 or (b) to the extent that the failure to do so is not reasonably likely to result, individually or in the aggregate, in a Material Adverse Effect.

SECTION 3.10 ERISA. No ERISA Event has occurred or is reasonably likely to occur that, when taken together with all other such ERISA Events for which liability is reasonably likely to occur, is reasonably likely to result in a Material Adverse Effect. The present value of all accumulated benefit obligations under each Plan did not, as of the date of the most recent financial statements reflecting such amounts, exceed the fair value of the assets of such Plan, except as would not reasonably be likely to result in a Material Adverse Effect.

SECTION 3.11 Disclosure.

(a) As of the Closing Date, none of the reports, financial statements, certificates or other written information furnished by or on behalf of any Loan Party to the Administrative Agent, the Revolver Agent or any Lender in connection with the negotiation of this Agreement or any other Loan Document or delivered hereunder or thereunder (as modified or supplemented by other information so furnished) contains any untrue statement of material fact or omits to state any material fact necessary to make the statements therein (when taken as a whole), in the light of the circumstances under which they were made (giving effect to all supplements and updates thereto), not materially misleading; provided that the foregoing shall not apply to any projected financial information, and with respect to such projected financial information, Holdings and the Borrower represent only that such information was prepared in good faith based upon assumptions believed by them to be reasonable at the time made and delivered and as of the Closing Date, it being understood that such projections are not a guarantee of financial performance and actual results may differ from such projections and such differences may be material.

(b) As of the Closing Date, to the knowledge of the Borrower, the information included in the Beneficial Ownership Certification provided on or prior to the Closing Date to any Lender in connection with this Agreement is true and correct in all respects.

SECTION 3.12 Subsidiaries. As of the Closing Date, Holdings does not have any subsidiaries other than the Borrower and the Subsidiaries and Subsidiaries that are not Material Subsidiaries listed on Schedule 3.12. Schedule 3.12 sets forth the name of, and the ownership or beneficial interest of Holdings in, each subsidiary, including the Borrower, and identifies each Subsidiary that is a Subsidiary Loan Party, in each case as of the Closing Date.

 

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SECTION 3.13 [Reserved].

SECTION 3.14 [Reserved].

SECTION 3.15 Labor Matters

. Except as, in the aggregate, could not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect, (i) as of the Closing Date, there are no strikes, lockouts or slowdowns against Holdings, the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary pending or, to the knowledge of Holdings, the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary, threatened, (ii) the Borrower and the Restricted Subsidiaries are in compliance with the Fair Labor Standards Act and any other applicable Requirements of Law dealing with such matters and (iii) all payments due from Holdings, the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary, or for which any claim may be made against Holdings, the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary, on account of wages and employee health and welfare insurance and other benefits, have been paid (to the extent required by applicable Requirements of Law) or accrued as a liability on the books of Holdings, the Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary.

SECTION 3.16 Solvency. Immediately after the consummation of the Transactions to occur on the Closing Date, the Borrower and its Subsidiaries, on a consolidated basis, are Solvent, in each case after giving effect to any rights of indemnification, contribution or subrogation arising among the Subsidiary Loan Parties pursuant to the Collateral Agreement or by law.

SECTION 3.17 Federal Reserve Regulations. No part of the proceeds of any Loan have been used or will be used, whether directly or indirectly, for any purpose that entails a violation of any of the Regulations of the Board, including Regulations T, U and X. Neither Holdings nor any of its Subsidiaries is engaged principally, or as one of its important activities, in the business of extending credit for the purpose of buying or carrying margin stock (as defined in Regulation U).

SECTION 3.18 Patriot Act, Etc.

(a) To the extent applicable, Holdings and each of its Subsidiaries is in compliance, in all material respects, with (i) the Trading with the Enemy Act, as amended, and each of the foreign assets control regulations of the United States Treasury Department (31 C.F.R. Subtitle B, Chapter V, as amended) and any other enabling legislation or executive order relating thereto and (ii) the Patriot Act. No part of the proceeds of the Loans will be used, directly or, to the knowledge of Holdings and its Subsidiaries, indirectly, for any payments to any governmental official or employee, political party, official of a political party, candidate for political office, or anyone else acting in an official capacity, in order to obtain, retain or direct business or obtain any improper advantage, in violation of the FCPA.

 

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(b) (i) None of Holdings or its Subsidiaries will directly or, to the knowledge of Holdings or such Subsidiary, indirectly, (x) use the proceeds of the Loans in violation of Sanctions or (y) otherwise make available such proceeds to any Person for the purpose of financing activities or business of or with any Sanctioned Person, to the extent such activities, businesses or transaction would be prohibited by Sanctions if conducted by a corporation incorporated in the United States or in a European Union member state, or in any Sanctioned Country, except to the extent that such financing would be permissible for a Person required to comply with Sanctions (including pursuant to any applicable exemptions, licenses or other approvals), (ii) none of Holdings, any Subsidiary or their respective directors, officers or employees or any controlled Affiliate of Holdings, the Borrower or its Subsidiaries that will act in any capacity in connection with or benefit from the incurrence of any Loans, is a Sanctioned Person and (iii) none of Holdings, its Subsidiaries or their respective directors, officers or employees are in violation of applicable Sanctions.

SECTION 3.19 Security Documents. Except as otherwise contemplated hereby or under any other Loan Documents, the provisions of the Security Documents, together with such filings and other actions required to be taken hereby or by the applicable Security Documents are effective to create in favor of the Collateral Agent for the benefit of the Secured Parties a legal, valid, enforceable and perfected first priority Lien (subject to Permitted Liens) on all right, title and interest of the respective Loan Parties in the Collateral described therein.

Notwithstanding anything herein (including this Section 3.19) or in any other Loan Document to the contrary, neither the Borrower nor any other Loan Party makes any representation or warranty as to (A) the effects of perfection or non-perfection, the priority or the enforceability of any pledge of or security interest in any Equity Interests of any Foreign Subsidiary, or as to the rights and remedies of the Agents or any Lender with respect thereto, under foreign law or (B) the pledge or creation of any security interest, or the effects of perfection or non-perfection, the priority or the enforceability of any pledge of or security interest to the extent such pledge, security interest, perfection or priority is not required pursuant to the Collateral and Guarantee Requirement.

SECTION 3.20 EEA Financial Institution.

Neither the Borrower nor any other Loan Party is an Affected Financial Institution.

ARTICLE IV

Conditions

SECTION 4.01 Closing Date. This Agreement shall not become effective until the date on which each of the following conditions is satisfied (or waived):

(a) No Default shall have occurred and be continuing on and as of the Closing Date.

(b) Each of the representations and warranties of Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries set forth in Article III and in the other Loan Documents shall be true and correct in all material respects, except to the extent that such representations and warranties specifically relate to an earlier date, in which case such representations and warranties shall have been true and correct in all material respects on and as of such earlier date (or, if qualified by “materiality”, “Material Adverse Effect” or similar language, in all respects (after giving effect to such qualification)).

 

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(c) The Administrative Agent shall have received a solvency certificate, dated the Closing Date, and signed by the Chief Financial Officer of the Borrower or a Financial Officer (immediately after giving effect to the Transactions) substantially in the form attached hereto as Exhibit G.

(d) The Administrative Agent shall have received all of the agreements, documents, instruments and other items set forth in Part II of the Closing Checklist attached hereto as Exhibit C, each in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent.

(e) Since December 31, 2020, there shall not have occurred a “Material Adverse Effect”.

(f) The Administrative Agent and the Revolver Agent shall have received all fees and expenses due and payable on or prior to the Closing Date, including the fees set forth in the Fee Letter and reimbursement or payment of all reasonable out-of-pocket expenses (including fees, charges and disbursements of counsel) required to be reimbursed or paid by any Loan Party hereunder or under any other Loan Document, in the case of expenses, to the extent invoiced three (3) days prior to the Closing Date.

(g) The Administrative Agent shall have received, at least three (3) days prior to the Closing Date, (i) all documentation and other information required by regulatory authorities concerning the Borrower and the Subsidiary Loan Parties under applicable “know your customer” and anti-money laundering rules and regulations, including the Patriot Act, that has been requested by the Administrative Agent in writing at least 10 Business Days prior to the Closing Date and (ii) to the extent the Borrower qualifies as a “legal entity customer” under the Beneficial Ownership Regulation, a Beneficial Ownership Certification with respect to the Borrower.

(h) Immediately following or substantially concurrently with the funding of the Closing Date Term Loans, the IPO and the Closing Date Refinancing shall have been consummated.

The Administrative Agent shall notify the Borrower and the Lenders of the Closing Date, and such notice shall be conclusive and binding.

SECTION 4.02 Each Credit Event. The obligation of each Lender to make any Loan or honor any Extension Request (other than a Borrowing Request requesting only a conversion of Loans to the other Type or a continuation of Eurodollar Loans) after the Closing Date and of any Issuing Bank to issue, amend, renew or extend any Letter of Credit, including, without limitation, on the Closing Date, is subject to satisfaction or waiver of the following conditions:

(a) On the relevant date of such Borrowing, after giving effect to such Borrowing or issuance of such Letter of Credit, as applicable, the following shall be true and correct:

 

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(i) with respect to any borrowing under an Incremental Facility in order to effect a Limited Condition Transaction, the Permitted Acquisition Company Representations and the Specified Representations shall be true and correct in all material respects; provided that each reference in such representation or warranty to “Material Adverse Effect” shall be deemed to be “Material Adverse Effect”, “Company Material Adverse Effect” or like term as defined in the applicable Permitted Acquisition Agreement; and

(ii) with respect to each Borrowing or issuance of Letter of Credit, other than as set forth in clause (i) above, the representations and warranties of each Loan Party set forth in the Loan Documents shall be true and correct in all material respects (except to the extent any such representation or warranty is qualified by “materially”, “Material Adverse Effect” or a similar term, in which case such representation and warranty shall be true and correct in all respects) on and as of the date of such Borrowing or the date of issuance, amendment, renewal or extension of such Letter of Credit, as applicable, except to the extent such representations and warranties expressly relate to an earlier date (in which case such representations and warranties shall be true and correct (or true and correct in all material respects, as the case may be) as of such earlier date).

(b) With respect to any Borrowing or issuance of Letter of Credit (subject to Section 1.07(f) in connection with a Limited Condition Transaction), at the time of and immediately after giving effect to such Borrowing or the issuance, amendment, renewal or extension of such Letter of Credit, as applicable, no Default shall have occurred and be continuing.

(c) With respect to any Borrowing or issuance of Letter of Credit (subject to Section 1.07(f) in connection with a Limited Condition Transaction), the opinion of the independent public accountants (after giving effect to any reissuance or revision of such opinion) on the most recent audited consolidated financial statements delivered by the Borrower pursuant to Section 5.01(a) shall not include a “going concern” or like qualification or exception or any qualification or exception as to the scope of such audit, except as may be required solely as a result of the impending maturity of any Loan or any anticipated inability to satisfy any financial maintenance covenant (including the Financial Covenant) or from the activities, operations, financial results, assets or liabilities of any Unrestricted Subsidiary.

(d) With respect to any Borrowing or issuance of Letter of Credit (subject to Section 1.07(f) in connection with a Limited Condition Transaction), the Borrower shall have delivered the financial statements required to be delivered under Section 5.01(a) or 5.01(b), as applicable; provided that, if a SEC Extension is in effect, no Borrowing or issuance of Letter of Credit shall be permitted until such financial statements are actually delivered.

 

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(e) With respect to any Borrowing or issuance of Letter of Credit (subject to Section 1.07(f) in connection with a Limited Condition Transaction), the Administrative Agent and, if applicable, the Revolver Agent, the relevant Issuing Bank and/or Swingline Lender shall have received a Borrowing Request in accordance with the requirements hereof.

Each Borrowing (provided that a conversion or continuation of a Borrowing shall not constitute a “Borrowing” for purposes of this Section 4.02) and each issuance, amendment, renewal or extension of a Letter of Credit shall be deemed to constitute a representation and warranty by Holdings and the Borrower on the date thereof as to the matters specified in paragraphs (a), (b), (c) and (d) of this Section 4.02.

ARTICLE V

Affirmative Covenants

Until the Commitments have expired or been terminated and the principal of and interest on each Loan and all fees, expenses and other amounts payable under any Loan Document shall have been paid in full and all Letters of Credit shall have expired or terminated and all LC Disbursements shall have been reimbursed, each of the Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries covenants and agrees with the Lenders that:

SECTION 5.01 Financial Statements and Other Information. The Borrower will furnish to the Administrative Agent (for distribution to the Revolver Agent and each Lender):

(a) within 150 days after the end of the fiscal year of the Borrower ended December 31, 2021 and within 120 days after the end of each fiscal year of the Borrower thereafter, in each case, subject to any SEC Extension, audited year-end consolidated financial statements of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries (including a balance sheet, statement of income and statement of cash flows and stockholders’ equity) as of the end of and for such fiscal year, and the related notes thereto, setting forth in each case in comparative form the figures for the previous fiscal year, all reported on by independent public accountants of recognized national standing to the effect that such consolidated financial statements present fairly in all material respects the financial condition and results of operations of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries on a consolidated basis in accordance with GAAP consistently applied,

(b) within 60 days after the end of the fiscal quarter of the Borrower ended September 30, 2021 and within 45 days after the end of the first three fiscal quarters each fiscal quarter of each fiscal year thereafter, in each case, subject to any SEC Extension, unaudited quarterly consolidated financial statements of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries (including a balance sheet, statement of income and statement of cash flows) as of the end of and for such fiscal quarter and the then-elapsed portion of the fiscal year, setting forth in each case in comparative form the figures for the corresponding period or periods of (or, in the case of the balance sheet, as of the end of) the previous fiscal year, all certified by a Financial Officer as presenting fairly in all material respects the financial condition and results of operations of the Borrower and the Subsidiaries on a consolidated basis in accordance with GAAP consistently applied, subject to normal year-end audit adjustments and the absence of footnotes,

 

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(c) to the extent the Borrower has any Unrestricted Subsidiaries, simultaneously with the delivery of each set of consolidated financial statements referred to in clauses (a) and (b) of this Section 5.01, the related unaudited consolidating financial statements reflecting the adjustments necessary to eliminate the accounts of Unrestricted Subsidiaries (if any) from such consolidated financial statements either on the face of the financial statements or in the footnotes thereto, and in “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations”, and reflecting the financial condition and results of operations of the Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries separate from the financial condition and results of operations of the Unrestricted Subsidiaries of the Borrower,

(d) concurrently with the delivery of the financial statements referred to in Section 5.01(a) for each fiscal year and Section 5.01(b) (for the first three fiscal quarters of each fiscal year) (commencing with the second full fiscal quarter after the Closing Date), (A) a duly completed Compliance Certificate substantially in the form of Exhibit F hereto, signed by a Financial Officer of the Borrower and (B) a “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations” that describes the financial condition and results of operations of the Borrower and its consolidated Subsidiaries, and

(e) promptly following any written request therefor, information and documentation with respect to any Loan Party reasonably necessary and requested by the Administrative Agent or any Lender that is required for purposes of compliance with applicable “know your customer” and anti-money laundering rules and regulations, including the Patriot Act and the Beneficial Ownership Regulation.

Notwithstanding the foregoing, the obligations referred to in Sections 5.01(a) and (b) may be satisfied with respect to financial information of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries by furnishing the applicable financial statements of Holdings (or any other direct or indirect parent of Holdings) or Borrower, Holdings or such parent’s Form 8-K, 10-K or 10-Q, as applicable, filed with the SEC, in each case, within the time periods specified in such paragraphs; provided that, to the extent such information relates to Holdings or a direct or indirect parent thereof, if and for so long as such parent will have independent assets or operations such information is accompanied by consolidating information (which need not be audited) that explains in reasonable detail the differences between the information relating to Holdings or such parent, on the one hand, and the information relating to the Borrower and the consolidated Restricted Subsidiaries on a stand-alone basis, on the other hand.

Documents required to be delivered pursuant to Section 5.01 may, at the Borrower’s option, be delivered electronically by posting such documents electronically, and if so posted, such documents shall be deemed to have been delivered on the date on which the Borrower posts such documents on the Borrower’s website or another public website (including EDGAR or any successor system thereto) to which the Borrower may so direct; provided that upon the reasonable request of the Administrative Agent, the Revolver Agent or the Collateral Agent with respect to any specific document so delivered electronically, the Borrower shall promptly deliver a physical copy of such document.

 

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To the extent any report or other information under this Section 5.01 is not delivered within the time periods specified under this Section 5.01 and such report or other information is subsequently delivered prior to the time such failure results in an Event of Default due to the Borrower’s failure to deliver such report or other information within such requisite time periods, the Borrower will be deemed to have satisfied its obligations under this Section 5.01 and any Default with respect to its obligations under this Section 5.01 shall be deemed to have been cured (but not any Default under any other provision of this Agreement). The Borrower may satisfy its obligation to deliver any report or other information to Lenders at any time by filing such information with the SEC and providing written notice (which notice may be by facsimile or electronic mail) to the Administrative Agent that such information has been filed.

SECTION 5.02 Notices of Material Events. The Borrower will furnish to the Administrative Agent (for distribution to the Revolver Agent and each Lender), written notice of the following promptly after obtaining knowledge thereof:

(a) the occurrence of any Event of Default; and

(b) the filing or commencement of any action, suit or proceeding by or before any arbitrator or Governmental Authority against the Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries that could in each case reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect.

Each notice delivered under this Section 5.02 shall be accompanied by a statement of a Financial Officer or other executive officer of the Borrower setting forth the details of the event or development requiring such notice and any action taken or proposed to be taken with respect thereto.

SECTION 5.03 Information Regarding Collateral. The Borrower will furnish to the Collateral Agent prompt written notice of (but in no event later than 90 days following) any change (i) in any Loan Party’s legal name, (ii) in the jurisdiction of incorporation or organization of any Loan Party or (iii) in any Loan Party’s organizational identification number. The Borrower agrees not to effect or permit any change referred to in the preceding sentence unless all filings have been made under the Uniform Commercial Code or otherwise that are required in order for the Collateral Agent to continue at all times following such change to have a valid, legal and perfected security interest in all the Collateral. The Borrower also agrees promptly to notify the Collateral Agent if any material portion of the Collateral is damaged or destroyed.

SECTION 5.04 Existence; Conduct of Business. The Borrower will, and will cause each of the Restricted Subsidiaries to, do or cause to be done all things necessary to preserve, renew and keep in full force and effect its legal existence and the rights, qualifications, permits, approvals, accreditations, authorizations, licenses, franchises, patents, copyrights, trademarks and trade names material to the conduct of its business; provided that the foregoing shall not prohibit any merger, consolidation, liquidation or dissolution permitted under Section 6.03.

 

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SECTION 5.05 Payment of Obligations. Each of Holdings and the Borrower will, and will cause each of its Restricted Subsidiaries to, pay its material Tax liabilities, before the same shall become delinquent or in default, except where (a) the validity or amount thereof is being contested in good faith by appropriate proceedings, (b) Holdings, the Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary has set aside on its books adequate reserves with respect thereto in accordance with GAAP, (c) such contest effectively suspends the enforcement of any Lien securing such obligation and (d) the failure to make such payment is not reasonably likely to result, individually or in the aggregate, in a Material Adverse Effect.

SECTION 5.06 Maintenance of Properties. The Borrower will, and will cause each of its Restricted Subsidiaries to, keep and maintain all property material to the conduct of its business in good working order and condition, ordinary wear and tear excepted.

SECTION 5.07 Insurance.

(a) The Borrower will, and will cause each of its Restricted Subsidiaries to, maintain, with financially sound and reputable insurance companies (which may include self-insurance) at the time the relevant coverage is placed or renewed insurance with respect to its properties and business against loss or damage of such type and in such amounts (with no greater risk retention) and against such risks as are customarily maintained by companies of established repute engaged in the same or similar businesses operating in the same or similar locations. The Borrower will deliver to the Lenders, upon reasonable written request of the Administrative Agent or Revolver Agent, information in reasonable detail as to the insurance so maintained.

SECTION 5.08 [Reserved].

SECTION 5.09 Books and Records; Inspection and Audit Rights. The Borrower will, and will cause each of its Restricted Subsidiaries to, keep proper books of record and account in which full, true and correct entries are made of all dealings and transactions in relation to its business and activities. The Borrower will, and will cause each of its Restricted Subsidiaries to, permit any representatives designated by the Administrative Agent, upon reasonable prior notice, to visit and inspect its properties during normal business hours, to examine and make extracts from its books and records, including environment assessment reports and Phase I or Phase II studies, and to discuss its affairs, finances and condition with its officers and independent accountants (provided that the Borrower shall be provided the opportunity to participate in any such discussions with its independent accountants), upon reasonable prior notice and during normal business hours, but not more than once in any twelve (12) month period absent the existence of an Event of Default and only one (1) such time shall be at the Borrower’s expense absent the existence of an Event of Default.

SECTION 5.10 Compliance with Laws. The Borrower will, and will cause each of its Restricted Subsidiaries to comply with all Requirements of Law, including Environmental Laws, applicable to it or its property, except where the failure to do so, individually or in the aggregate, is not reasonably likely to result in a Material Adverse Effect. The Borrower will maintain in effect and enforce policies and procedures designed to ensure compliance by the Borrower, its Subsidiaries and their respective directors, officers or employees with Anti-Corruption Laws and applicable Sanctions.

 

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SECTION 5.11 Use of Proceeds and Letters of Credit. The proceeds of the Revolving Loans, Swingline Loans and Letters of Credit will be used only for working capital and other general corporate purposes (including Permitted Acquisitions) and for any other purposes not prohibited by this Agreement. The proceeds of the Closing Date Term Loans, together with the proceeds of the IPO, will be used by the Borrower on the Closing Date (i) consummate the Closing Date Refinancing and (ii) to pay the Transaction Expenses and for working capital and other general corporate purposes. No part of the proceeds of any Loan and no Letter of Credit will be used, whether directly or indirectly, for any purpose that entails a violation of any of the Regulations of the Board, including Regulations T, U and X. No part of the proceeds of any Borrowing or any Letter of Credit will be used, directly or, to the knowledge of Parent, Holdings or the Borrower, indirectly, (A) in furtherance of an offer, payment, promise to pay, or authorization of the payment or giving of money, or anything else of value, to any Person in violation of any Anti-Corruption Laws, (B) for the purpose of funding, financing or facilitating any activities, business or transaction of or with any Sanctioned Person, or in any Sanctioned Country, to the extent such activities, businesses or transaction would be prohibited by Sanctions if conducted by a corporation incorporated in the United States, except to the extent specifically or generally licensed by OFAC (or otherwise authorized by OFAC), or (C) in any manner that would result in the violation of any Sanctions applicable to any party hereto.

SECTION 5.12 Additional Subsidiaries; Succeeding Holdings.

(a) If any additional Restricted Subsidiary (other than an Excluded Subsidiary) is formed or acquired after the Closing Date or if any Excluded Subsidiary that is not a Subsidiary Loan Party ceases to qualify as an Excluded Subsidiary, the Borrower will, within 60 days after the date such Restricted Subsidiary has been formed or acquired (or the date on which such Subsidiary ceases to constitute an Excluded Subsidiary), notify the Collateral Agent and the Lenders (through the Administrative Agent) thereof and within such 60-day period cause the Collateral and Guarantee Requirement to be satisfied with respect to such Subsidiary (if it is a Subsidiary Loan Party) and with respect to any Equity Interest in or Indebtedness of such Subsidiary owned by or on behalf of any Loan Party. For avoidance of doubt, the Borrower in its sole discretion may (x) designate any Restricted Subsidiary that is not required to be a Guarantor (such a Restricted Subsidiary, an “Elective Guarantor”) and is organized under the laws of a jurisdiction of organization or incorporation reasonably acceptable to the Administrative Agent to Guarantee the Obligations by causing such Restricted Subsidiary to become a Guarantor and Grantor pursuant to the Collateral Agreement (or other applicable Security Documents) or (y) cause any Subsidiary that is not then required to be a Guarantor (including any Subsidiary that become an Elective Guarantor pursuant to clause (x) above) to be released from its guarantee.

(b) Upon the addition of a Succeeding Holdings, the Borrower will notify the Collateral Agent and the Lenders (through the Administrative Agent) thereof and within 10 days after such Succeeding Holdings is formed or acquired cause the Collateral and Guarantee Requirement to be satisfied with respect to the Succeeding Holdings.

 

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SECTION 5.13 Further Assurances.

(a) Each of Holdings, each Succeeding Holdings and the Borrower will, and will cause each Subsidiary Loan Party to, execute any and all further documents, financing statements, agreements and instruments, and take all such further actions (including the filing and recording of financing statements and other documents), which may be required under any applicable law, or which the Administrative Agent or the Required Lenders may reasonably request, to cause the Collateral and Guarantee Requirement to be and remain satisfied, all at the expense of the Loan Parties. The Borrower also agrees to provide to the Collateral Agent, from time to time upon reasonable request, evidence reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent as to the perfection and priority of the Liens created or intended to be created by the Security Documents.

(b) If any material assets are acquired by the Borrower or any Subsidiary Loan Party after the Closing Date (other than assets constituting Collateral under the Collateral Agreement that become subject to a perfected Lien in favor of the Collateral Agreement upon acquisition thereof), the Borrower will notify the Administrative Agent and the Lenders thereof and, if requested by the Administrative Agent or the Required Lenders, the Borrower will cause such assets to be subjected to a Lien securing the Obligations and will take, and cause the Subsidiary Loan Parties to take, such actions as shall be necessary or reasonably requested by the Administrative Agent to grant and perfect such Liens, including actions described in paragraph (a) of this Section 5.13, all at the expense of the Loan Parties; provided that the Collateral Agent may, in its reasonable judgment, grant extensions of time for compliance or exceptions with the provisions of this paragraph by any Loan Party.

SECTION 5.14 Designation of Subsidiaries. The Borrower may at any time after the Closing Date designate any Restricted Subsidiary of the Borrower as an Unrestricted Subsidiary or any Unrestricted Subsidiary as a Restricted Subsidiary; provided that (i) immediately before and after such designation, no Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing or would result therefrom and (ii) no Subsidiary may be designated as an Unrestricted Subsidiary if, after such designation, it would be a “Restricted Subsidiary” for the purpose of any Material Indebtedness or any Specified Indebtedness or any Permitted Refinancing thereof. The designation of any Subsidiary as an Unrestricted Subsidiary after the Closing Date shall constitute an Investment by the Borrower therein at the date of designation in an amount equal to the greater of (x) the Fair Market Value of such Investment at the date of designation and (y) the sum of (i) the aggregate amount paid to acquire such Unrestricted Subsidiary, if applicable, plus (ii) the aggregate amount of Investments made by the Borrower and its Subsidiaries in such Unrestricted Subsidiary on or prior to the date of designation. The designation of any Unrestricted Subsidiary as a Restricted Subsidiary shall constitute (i) the incurrence at the time of designation of any Investment, Indebtedness or Liens of such Subsidiary existing at such time and (ii) a return on any Investment by the Borrower in Unrestricted Subsidiaries pursuant to the preceding sentence in an amount equal to the Fair Market Value of such Investment in such Subsidiary. Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, no Restricted Subsidiary that owns Material IP may be designated as an Unrestricted Subsidiary.

SECTION 5.15 Post-Closing Matters. The Borrower will, and will cause each of its Restricted Subsidiaries to execute and deliver the documents and complete the tasks set forth on Schedule 5.15 as soon as commercially reasonable and by no later than the date set forth in Schedule 5.15; provided that the Administrative Agent or Collateral Agent, as applicable, may in its reasonable judgment, grant extensions of time for compliance or exceptions with the provisions of this paragraph.

 

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ARTICLE VI

Negative Covenants

Until the Commitments have expired or been terminated and the principal of and interest on each Loan and all fees, expenses and other amounts payable under any Loan Document have been paid in full and all Letters of Credit have expired or terminated and all LC Disbursements shall have been reimbursed, each of the Borrower (and, with respect to Section 6.03 only, Holdings) and each Restricted Subsidiary covenants and agrees with the Lenders that:

SECTION 6.01 Indebtedness; Certain Equity Interests.

The Borrower will not, nor will it permit any Restricted Subsidiary to, create, incur, assume or permit to exist any Indebtedness, except:

(i) Indebtedness created under the Loan Documents,

(ii) [reserved],

(iii) Indebtedness existing on the Closing Date set forth in Schedule 6.01 and any Permitted Refinancing thereof,

(iv) Indebtedness of the Borrower owed to any Restricted Subsidiary and of any Restricted Subsidiary owed to the Borrower or any other Restricted Subsidiary; provided that (A) Indebtedness of the Borrower owed to any Restricted Subsidiary and Indebtedness of any Subsidiary Loan Party owed to the Borrower or any other Restricted Subsidiary shall be subordinated to the Obligations on terms reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent, (B) Indebtedness owed to any Captive Insurance Subsidiary shall only be subordinated to the extent permitted by applicable laws or regulations and (C) the related Investment is permitted by Section 6.04(d),

(v) Guarantees by the Borrower of Indebtedness of any Restricted Subsidiary and by any Restricted Subsidiary of Indebtedness of the Borrower or any other Restricted Subsidiary; provided that (A) the Indebtedness so Guaranteed is permitted by this Section 6.01, (B) Guarantees permitted under this clause (v) shall be subordinated to the Obligations of the Borrower or the applicable Restricted Subsidiary to the same extent and on the same terms as the Indebtedness so Guaranteed is subordinated to the Obligations and (C) except in the case of Foreign Subsidiaries that provide Guarantees of Indebtedness of other Foreign Subsidiaries, the related Investment is permitted by Section 6.04(d),

(vi) Indebtedness (including Attributable Indebtedness) of the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary incurred to finance the acquisition, construction or improvement of any fixed or capital assets, including Capital Lease Obligations, and any Indebtedness assumed by the Borrower or any Subsidiary in connection with the acquisition of any such assets or secured by a Lien on any such assets prior to the acquisition thereof, and Permitted Refinancings thereof; provided that (A) such Indebtedness (other than Permitted Refinancings) is incurred prior to or within 120 days after such acquisition or the completion of such construction or improvement and (B) the aggregate principal amount of Indebtedness permitted by this clause (vi) shall not (except as permitted by the definition of “Permitted Refinancing”) exceed the greater of (x) $25,000,000 and (y) 35% of TTM Consolidated EBITDA at the time of such incurrence at any time outstanding,

 

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(vii) Acquired Indebtedness of the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary assumed in connection with any Permitted Acquisition and not created in contemplation thereof; provided that after giving Pro Forma Effect to such Permitted Acquisition and the assumption or incurrence of such Indebtedness incurred or assumed pursuant to this clause (vii), the Total Net Leverage Ratio does not exceed 4.25:1.00, and any Permitted Refinancing of any such Indebtedness; provided further that any such Indebtedness of a Non-Loan Party does not exceed in the aggregate at any time outstanding, together with any Indebtedness incurred by a Non-Loan Party pursuant to clause (xiv) of this Section 6.01, $5,000,000,

(viii) Indebtedness owed to any Person (including obligations in respect of letters of credit for the benefit of such Person) providing workers’ compensation, health, disability or other employee benefits or property, casualty or liability insurance pursuant to reimbursement or indemnification obligations to such Person, in each case incurred in the ordinary course of business,

(ix) Indebtedness of the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary in respect of performance bonds, bid bonds, appeal bonds, surety bonds, performance and completion guarantees and similar obligations, in each case provided in the ordinary course of business,

(x) Indebtedness of any Loan Party pursuant to any Swap Agreement,

(xi) Indebtedness (i) arising in connection with the endorsement of instruments for deposit in the ordinary course of business and (ii) consisting of trade payables and accrued expenses in the ordinary course of business,

(xii) Indebtedness representing deferred compensation to current or former consultants, employees or directors of Holdings, the Borrower and the Restricted Subsidiaries incurred in the ordinary course of business and consistent with practices of the Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries in place on the Closing Date,

(xiii) Indebtedness in respect of promissory notes issued to consultants, employees or directors or former employees, consultants or directors in connection with repurchases of Equity Interests permitted by Section 6.08(a)(iii),

(xiv) Indebtedness of any Foreign Subsidiary or any Non-Loan Party, collectively, in an amount not to exceed, together with any Indebtedness incurred by a Non-Loan Party pursuant to clause (vii) of this Section 6.01, $5,000,000 at any time outstanding,

(xv) (a) junior lien or unsecured Indebtedness; provided that on a Pro Forma Basis after giving effect to the incurrence of such Indebtedness and the use of proceeds thereof, (x) in the case of junior lien Indebtedness, the Secured Net Leverage Ratio does not exceed 4.25:1.00 as of the most recent fiscal quarter for which financial statements have been delivered and (y) in the case of unsecured Indebtedness, the Total Net Leverage Ratio does not exceed 4.25:1.00 as the most recent fiscal quarter for which financial statements have been delivered and (b) any Permitted Refinancing of any of the forgoing,

 

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(xvi) the incurrence by the Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries of Indebtedness arising from the honoring by a bank or other financial institution of a check, draft or similar instrument inadvertently (except in the case of daylight overdrafts) drawn against insufficient funds in the ordinary course of business, so long as such Indebtedness is extinguished within five (5) Business Days,

(xvii) the incurrence of Indebtedness arising from agreements of the Borrower or a Restricted Subsidiary providing for indemnification, adjustment of purchase price, holdback, contingency payment obligations or similar obligations, in each case, incurred or assumed in connection with the disposition or acquisition of any business, assets or capital stock of the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary,

(xviii) the incurrence of Indebtedness resulting from endorsements of negotiable instruments for collection in the ordinary course of business,

(xix) Indebtedness of the Borrower or a Restricted Subsidiary in respect of netting services, overdraft protection and otherwise in connection with deposit accounts; provided that such Indebtedness remains outstanding for ten (10) Business Days or less,

(xx) the incurrence or issuance by the Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries of any additional Indebtedness in an aggregate principal amount not to exceed the greater of (x) $35,000,000 and (y) 50% of TTM Consolidated EBITDA at the time of such incurrence at any time outstanding, and

(xxi) Indebtedness resulting from (x) the financing of insurance premiums by its insurance providers or (y) take or pay obligations contained in supply arrangements, in each case, in the ordinary course of business or consistent with past practice.

For purposes of determining compliance with Section 6.01, in the event that an item of Indebtedness (or any portion thereof) at any time, whether at the time of incurrence or upon the application of all or a portion of the proceeds thereof or subsequently, meets the criteria of more than one of the categories of permitted Indebtedness described in Section 6.01(a)(i) through (xxi) above, the Borrower, in its sole discretion, will classify and may subsequently reclassify such item of Indebtedness (or any portion thereof) in any one or more of the types of Indebtedness described in 6.01(a)(i) through (xxi) above and will only be required to include the amount and type of such Indebtedness in such of the above clauses as determined by the Borrower at such time. The Borrower will be entitled to divide and classify an item of Indebtedness in more than one of the types of Indebtedness described in 6.01(a)(i) through (xxi) above.

For purposes of determining compliance with any dollar-denominated restriction on the incurrence of Indebtedness, the dollar-equivalent principal amount of Indebtedness denominated in a foreign currency shall be calculated based on the relevant currency exchange rate in effect on the date such Indebtedness was incurred, in the case of term debt, or first committed, in the case of revolving credit debt; provided that if such Indebtedness is incurred to extend, replace, refund, refinance, renew or defease other Indebtedness denominated in a foreign currency, and such

 

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extension, replacement, refunding, refinancing, renewal or defeasance would cause the applicable dollar-denominated restriction to be exceeded if calculated at the relevant currency exchange rate in effect on the date of such extension, replacement, refunding, refinancing, renewal or defeasance, such dollar-denominated restriction shall be deemed not to have been exceeded so long as the principal amount of such refinancing Indebtedness does not exceed the principal amount of such Indebtedness being extended, replaced, refunded, refinanced, renewed or defeased, plus the aggregate amount of fees, underwriting discounts, premiums (including tender premiums) and other costs and expenses (including OID) incurred in connection with such refinancing.

The accrual of interest, the accretion or amortization of OID, the payment of interest in the form of additional Indebtedness with the same terms, shall not be deemed to be an incurrence of Indebtedness for purposes of this Section 6.01.

SECTION 6.02 Liens. The Borrower will not, and will not permit any Restricted Subsidiary to, create, incur, assume or permit to exist any Lien on any property or asset now owned or hereafter acquired by it, or assign or sell any income or revenues (including accounts receivable) or rights in respect of any thereof, except (collectively, “Permitted Liens”):

(a) Liens created by the Loan Documents,

(b) Permitted Encumbrances,

(c) any Lien on any property or asset of the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary existing on the Closing Date and set forth in Schedule 6.02; provided that (A) such Lien shall not apply to any other property or asset of the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary and (B) such Lien shall secure only those obligations which it secures on the Closing Date and Permitted Refinancings thereof,

(d) any Lien existing on any property or asset prior to the acquisition thereof by the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary or existing on any property or asset of any Person that becomes a Restricted Subsidiary after the date hereof prior to the time such Person becomes a Restricted Subsidiary securing Indebtedness permitted by clause (vii) of Section 6.01; provided that (A) such Lien is not created in contemplation of or in connection with such acquisition or such Person becoming a Restricted Subsidiary, as applicable, (B) such Lien shall not apply to any other property or asset of the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary and (C) such Lien shall secure only those obligations that it secures on the date of such acquisition or the date such Person becomes a Restricted Subsidiary, as applicable, and Permitted Refinancings thereof,

(e) Liens on fixed or capital assets acquired, constructed or improved by the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary; provided that (i) such security interests secure Indebtedness permitted by clause (vi) of Section 6.01 (including Permitted Refinancings thereof), (ii) such security interests and the Indebtedness secured thereby (other than Permitted Refinancings) are incurred prior to or within 120 days after such acquisition or the completion of such construction or improvement, (iii) the Indebtedness secured thereby does not exceed 100% of the cost of acquiring, constructing or improving such fixed or capital assets and (iv) such security interests shall not apply to any other property or assets of the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary,

 

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(f) Liens (i) arising from filing Uniform Commercial Code financing statements regarding leases, (ii) of a collecting bank arising in the ordinary course of business under Section 4-208 of the Uniform Commercial Code in effect in the relevant jurisdiction covering only the items being collected upon and (iii) in favor of a banking institution encumbering deposits (including the right of set-off) and which are within the general parameters customary in the banking industry,

(g) Liens arising out of sale and leaseback transactions permitted by Section 6.06,

(h) Liens in favor of the Borrower or another Loan Party (other than Holdings),

(i) licenses, sublicenses, leases or subleases granted to others not interfering in any material respect with the business of the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary,

(j) Liens on assets of any Foreign Subsidiary or any Non-Loan Party securing Indebtedness permitted by Section 6.01(xiv),

(k) Liens on assets of the Borrower or the Restricted Subsidiaries not otherwise permitted by this Section 6.02, so long as the aggregate outstanding principal amount of the obligations secured thereby does not exceed the greater of (x) $35,000,000 and (y) 50% of TTM Consolidated EBITDA at the time of such incurrence at any time outstanding; provided that in no event shall Holdings, the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary create, incur, assume or permit to exist any Lien on any Equity Interests of the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary,

(l) Liens on the Collateral securing Indebtedness permitted by paragraph (xv) or (xvi) of Section 6.01,

(m) Liens on Equity Interests of an Unrestricted Subsidiary that secure Indebtedness or other obligations of such Unrestricted Subsidiary,

(n) Liens encumbering reasonable customary initial deposits and margin deposits and similar Liens attaching to brokerage accounts incurred in the ordinary course of business and not for speculative purposes,

(o) Liens arising out of judgments or decrees and not resulting in an Event of Default, and

(p) Liens solely on any cash earnest money deposits made by the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary with any letter of intent or purchase agreement permitted hereunder.

 

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SECTION 6.03 Fundamental Changes.

(a) Neither Holdings nor the Borrower will, nor will they permit any Restricted Subsidiary to, merge into or consolidate with any other Person, or permit any other Person to merge into or consolidate with it, or liquidate or dissolve, except that, if at the time thereof and immediately after giving effect thereto no Default or Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing, (i) any Loan Party may merge with and into the Borrower in a transaction in which the surviving entity is a Person organized or existing under the laws of the United States of America, any State thereof or the District of Columbia and, if such surviving entity is not the Borrower, such Person expressly assumes, in writing, all the obligations the Borrower under the Loan Documents, (ii) any Loan Party (other than Holdings or the Borrower) may merge with and into any Restricted Subsidiary in a transaction in which the surviving entity is a Restricted Subsidiary and, if any party to such merger is a Subsidiary Loan Party, is or becomes a Subsidiary Loan Party concurrently with such merger, (iii) any Restricted Subsidiary (other than a Subsidiary Loan Party) may liquidate or dissolve if the Borrower determines in good faith that such liquidation or dissolution is in the best interests of the Borrower and is not materially disadvantageous to the Lenders and (iv) any asset sale permitted by Section 6.05 or Investment permitted by Section 6.04 may be effected through the merger of a subsidiary of the Borrower with a third party.

(b) The Borrower will not, and Holdings and the Borrower will not permit any Restricted Subsidiary to, engage to any material extent in any business other than a Permitted Business.

(c) Holdings will not engage in any business or activity other than the ownership of all the outstanding shares of capital stock of the Borrower and engaging in corporate and administrative functions and other activities incidental thereto (including payment of dividends and other amounts in respect of its Equity Interests). Holdings will not own or acquire any assets (other than Equity Interests of the Borrower and the cash proceeds of any Restricted Payments permitted by Section 6.08 or proceeds of any issuance of Indebtedness or Equity Interests permitted by this Agreement pending application as required by this Agreement) or incur any liabilities (other than liabilities under and permitted to be incurred under the Loan Documents and liabilities reasonably incurred in connection with its maintenance of its existence (including the ability to incur fees, costs and expenses relating to such maintenance) and activities incidental thereto). Notwithstanding the foregoing, Holdings shall be permitted to (i) enter into transactions, engage in activities and maintain assets or incur liabilities in respect of Swap Agreements related to Indebtedness of Holdings permitted hereunder, (ii) engage in any public offering of its common stock or any other issuance or sale or repurchase of its Equity Interests, in each case to the extent not resulting in a Change of Control, (iii) participate in tax, accounting and other administrative matters as a member of the consolidated group of Holdings, the Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries, (iv) hold any cash or property (but not operate any property), (v) employ or provide indemnification to employees, officers and directors and (vi) engage in any activities incidental to the foregoing.

 

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SECTION 6.04 Investments, Loans, Advances, Guarantees and Acquisitions. The Borrower will not, and will not permit any Restricted Subsidiary to, purchase or acquire (including pursuant to any merger with any Person that was not a wholly owned Restricted Subsidiary prior to such merger) any Equity Interests in or evidences of indebtedness or other securities (including any option, warrant or other right to acquire any of the foregoing) of, make any loans or advances to, Guarantee any obligations of, or make any investment or any other interest in, any other Person, or purchase or otherwise acquire (in one transaction or a series of transactions) any assets of any other Person constituting a business unit (collectively, “Investments”), except:

(a) Permitted Acquisitions,

(b) Permitted Investments,

(c) Investments existing on the Closing Date and set forth on Schedule 6.04 and any Investments consisting of extensions, modifications or renewals of any such Investments (excluding any such extensions, modifications or renewals involving additional advances, contributions or other investments of cash or property or other increases thereof unless it is a result of the accrual or accretion of interest or OID or payment-in-kind pursuant to the terms, as of the Closing Date, of the original Investment so extended, modified or renewed),

(d) Investments by the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiaries in Equity Interests in their respective Restricted Subsidiaries; provided that (A) any such Equity Interests held by a Loan Party shall be pledged pursuant to the Collateral Agreement (subject to the limitations referred to in the definition of “Collateral and Guarantee Requirement”) and (B) the aggregate amount of investments in Non-Loan Parties by Loan Parties (together with outstanding intercompany loans permitted under clause (B) to the proviso to Section 6.04(e) and outstanding Guarantees permitted to be incurred under clause (B) to the proviso to Section 6.04(f)) shall not exceed the greater of (x) $10,000,000 and (y) 15% of TTM Consolidated EBITDA at the time of such incurrence at any time outstanding (in each case determined without regard to any write-downs or write-offs),

(e) loans or advances made by the Borrower to any Restricted Subsidiary and made by any Restricted Subsidiary to the Borrower or any other Restricted Subsidiary; provided that (A) any such loans and advances made by a Loan Party shall be evidenced by a promissory note pledged pursuant to the Collateral Agreement and (B) the amount of such loans and advances made by Loan Parties to Non-Loan Parties (together with outstanding investments permitted under clause (B) to the proviso to Section 6.04(d) and outstanding Guarantees permitted under clause (B) to the proviso to Section 6.04(f)) shall not exceed the greater of (x) $10,000,000 and (y) 15% of TTM Consolidated EBITDA at the time of such incurrence in the aggregate at any time outstanding (in each case determined without regard to any write-downs or write-offs),

(f) Guarantees constituting Indebtedness permitted by Section 6.01 and performance guarantees in the ordinary course of business; provided that (and without limiting the foregoing) the aggregate principal amount of Indebtedness of Non-Loan Parties that is Guaranteed by any Loan Party (together with outstanding investments permitted under clause (B) to the proviso to Section 6.04(d) and outstanding intercompany loans permitted under clause (B) to the proviso to Section 6.04(e)) shall not exceed the greater of (x) $10,000,000 and (y) 15% of TTM Consolidated EBITDA at the time of such incurrence at any time outstanding (in each case determined without regard to any write-downs or write-offs),

 

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(g) receivables or other trade payables owing to the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary if created or acquired in the ordinary course of business consistent with past practice and payable or dischargeable in accordance with customary trade terms; provided that such trade terms may include such concessionary trade terms as the Borrower or any such Restricted Subsidiary deems reasonable under the circumstances,

(h) Investments consisting of Equity Interests, obligations, securities or other property received in settlement of delinquent accounts of and disputes with customers and suppliers in the ordinary course of business and owing to the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary or in satisfaction of judgments,

(i) Investments by the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary in payroll, travel and similar advances to cover matters that are expected at the time of such advances ultimately to be treated as expenses for accounting purposes and that are made in the ordinary course of business,

(j) loans or advances by the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary to employees and other individual service providers made in the ordinary course of business (including travel, entertainment and relocation expenses) of the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary not exceeding $2,000,000 in the aggregate at any time outstanding (determined without regard to any write-downs or write-offs of such loans or advances),

(k) Investments in the form of Swap Agreements,

(l) Investments of any Person existing at the time such Person becomes a Restricted Subsidiary of the Borrower or consolidates or merges, in one transaction or a series of transactions, with the Borrower or any of the Restricted Subsidiaries (including in connection with a Permitted Acquisition) so long as such investments were not made in contemplation of such Person becoming a Restricted Subsidiary or of such consolidation or merger,

(m) Investments received in connection with the dispositions of assets permitted by Section 6.05,

(n) Investments constituting deposits described in clauses (c) and (d) of the definition of the term “Permitted Encumbrances”,

(o) Investments constituting the purchase of Equity Interests in any joint venture so long as on a Pro Forma Basis, immediately after giving effect to the making of such Investment (together with any related issuance or incurrence of Indebtedness) as if such Investment had been made on the first day of the applicable period, the Total Net Leverage Ratio as of the most recent Test Period prior to the making of (or committing to make, at the option of the Borrower) such Investment shall be no greater than 4.25:1.00,

 

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(p) [reserved],

(q) [reserved];

(r) Investments by the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary (including Investments in Permitted Acquisitions) in an aggregate amount, as valued at cost at the time each such Investment is made and including all related commitments for future advances, not exceeding the Available Amount immediately prior to the time of the making of any such Investment,

(s) Investments by the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary in an amount not to exceed the greater of (x) $35,000,000 and (y) 50% of TTM Consolidated EBITDA as of the date of such Investment in the aggregate at any time outstanding,

(t) Investments, loans and advances by the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary to any Captive Insurance Subsidiary in an amount equal to (A) the capital required under the applicable laws or regulations of the jurisdiction in which such Captive Insurance Subsidiary is formed or determined by independent actuaries as prudent and necessary capital to operate such Captive Insurance Subsidiary plus (B) any reasonable general corporate and overhead expenses of such Captive Insurance Subsidiary,

(u) additional Investments so long as (i) at the time of making such Investment, no Specified Default shall have occurred and be continuing and (ii) on a Pro Forma Basis, immediately after giving effect to the making of such Investment (together with any related issuance or incurrence of Indebtedness) as if such Investment had been made on the first day of the applicable period, the Total Net Leverage Ratio as of the most recent Test Period prior to the making of (or committing to make, at the option of the Borrower) such Investment shall be no greater than 4.25:1.00, and

(v) Investments in prepaid expenses, negotiable instruments held for collection and lease, utility and workers compensation, performance and similar deposits entered into as a result of the operations of the business in the ordinary course of business.

For purposes of covenant compliance, the amount of any Investment outstanding at any time shall be the original cost of such Investment (without adjustment for any increases or decreases in the value of such Investments), reduced by (except in the case of any Investments made using the Available Amount pursuant to Section 6.04(r) and returns which are included in the Available Amount pursuant to the definition thereof) any dividend, distribution, interest payment, return of capital, repayment or other amount received in cash by the Borrower or a Restricted Subsidiary in respect of such Investment.

SECTION 6.05 Asset Sales. The Borrower will not, and will not permit any Restricted Subsidiary to, sell, transfer, lease or otherwise dispose of any asset, including any Equity Interest owned by it (other than directors’ qualifying Equity Interests or Equity Interests required by applicable law to be held by a Person other than the Borrower or a Restricted Subsidiary), nor will the Borrower permit any Restricted Subsidiary to issue any additional Equity Interest in such Restricted Subsidiary (other than to the Borrower or another Restricted Subsidiary in compliance with Section 6.04) involving aggregate payments or consideration for assets having a Fair Market Value in excess of $10,000,000 for any individual transaction or series of related transactions, except:

 

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(a) sales, transfers and dispositions of (i) inventory in the ordinary course of business and (ii) used, damaged, obsolete, worn out, negligible or surplus equipment or property in the ordinary course of business,

(b) sales, transfers and dispositions to the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary; provided that any such sales, transfers or dispositions involving a Non-Loan Party shall be made in compliance with Section 6.09,

(c) sales, transfers and dispositions of products, services or accounts receivable (including at a discount) in connection with the compromise, settlement or collection thereof consistent with past practice,

(d) sales, transfers and dispositions of property to the extent such property constitutes an Investment permitted by clauses (b), (h), (l) and (n) of Section 6.04,

(e) sale and leaseback transactions permitted by Section 6.06,

(f) dispositions resulting from any casualty or other insured damage to, or any taking under power of eminent domain or by condemnation or similar proceeding of, any property or asset of the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary,

(g) (i) sales, transfers and dispositions of Non-Core Assets in connection with a Permitted Acquisition or other Investment permitted hereunder which, in the reasonable good faith judgment of the Borrower, are not used or useful or are duplicative in the business of Borrower and the Restricted Subsidiaries or as required by regulatory (including antitrust) authorities and (ii) sales, transfers and dispositions of assets not constituting Collateral, in an aggregate amount not to exceed the greater of $10,000,000 and 15% TTM Consolidated EBITDA as of the most recent Test Period prior to making (or committing to make, at the option of the Borrower) such sale, transfer or disposition,

(h) exchanges of property for similar replacement property for fair value,

(i) dispositions of assets set forth on Schedule 6.05,

(j) the sale or other disposition of Permitted Investments in the ordinary course of business,

(k) the sale or disposition of any assets or property received as a result of a foreclosure by the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary with respect to any secured Investment or other transfer of title with respect to any secured Investment in default,

(l) the licensing or sublicensing of intellectual property in the ordinary course of business or in accordance with industry practice,

 

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(m) the sale, lease, conveyance, disposition or other transfer of (a) the Equity Interests of, or any Investment in, any Unrestricted Subsidiary or (b) Investments (other than Investments in any Restricted Subsidiary) made pursuant to clause (s) of Section 6.04,

(n) surrender or waiver of contract rights or the settlement, release or surrender of contract, tort or other claims of any kind,

(o) leases or subleases to third persons in the ordinary course of business that do not interfere in any material respect with the business of the Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries,

(p) the sale of Equity Interests in joint ventures to the extent required by or made pursuant to, customary buy/sell arrangements entered into in the ordinary course of business between the joint venture parties and sent forth in joint venture agreements,

(q) sales, transfers, leases and other dispositions of assets in any fiscal year representing no more than 10 % of Consolidated EBITDA for the immediately preceding fiscal year of the Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries,

(r) [reserved],

(s) [reserved], and

(t) additional sales, transfers, leases and other dispositions so long as (i) at the time of making such sale, transfer, lease or other disposition, no Specified Default shall have occurred and be continuing and (ii) on a Pro Forma Basis, immediately after giving effect to the making of such sale, transfer, lease or other dispositions as if such sale, transfer, lease or other dispositions had been made on the first day of the applicable period, the Total Net Leverage Ratio as of the most recent Test Period prior to the making of (or committing to make, at the option of the Borrower) such sale, transfer, lease or other dispositions shall be no greater than 3.75:1.00;

provided that, all sales, transfers, leases and other dispositions permitted hereby (other than those permitted by paragraphs (b), (c), (f), (l), (n) and (p) above) shall be made for Fair Market Value and (other than those permitted by paragraphs (b), (d), (h), (l), (n) and (p) above) for at least 75% cash consideration; provided that, the foregoing cash consideration requirement shall be reduced to the extent, on a Pro Forma Basis, immediately after giving effect to the making of such sale, transfer, lease or other disposition as if such sale, transfer, lease or other dispositions had been made on the first day of the applicable period, the Total Net Leverage Ratio as of the most recent Test Period prior to the making of (or committing to make, at the option of the Borrower) such sale, transfer, lease or other disposition is no greater than (x) 3.75:1.00, to at least 50% cash consideration and (y) 3.00:1.00, to 0% cash consideration (and for purposes of making the foregoing determination, each of the following shall be deemed “cash consideration”: (1) any liabilities, as shown on the then most recent balance sheet of Borrower that are assumed by the transferee of any such assets pursuant to a customary novation agreement or other customary agreement that releases Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary from all liability thereunder or with respect thereto; and (2) any securities, notes or other obligations received by Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary from the transferee that are converted to cash or Permitted Investments

 

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within ninety (90) days after receipt, to the extent of the cash or Permitted Investments received in that conversion), plus (for all such sales, transfers, leases and other dispositions permitted hereby) an aggregate additional amount of non-cash consideration in the amount not to exceed the greater of (x) $10,000,000 and (y) 15% of TTM Consolidated EBITDA as of the date of such Investment.

SECTION 6.06 Additional Limitations on Intellectual Property Transfers. No Material IP shall be permitted to be transferred to any Unrestricted Subsidiary, whether by designation hereunder or other transfer or disposition.

SECTION 6.07 [Reserved].

SECTION 6.08 Restricted Payments; Certain Payments of Indebtedness.

(a) The Borrower will not, and will not permit any Restricted Subsidiary to, declare or make, or agree to pay or make, directly or indirectly, any Restricted Payment, or incur any obligation (contingent or otherwise) to do so, except:

(i) the Borrower may declare and pay dividends with respect to its common stock payable solely in additional shares of its common stock, and, with respect to its preferred stock, payable solely in additional shares of such preferred stock or in shares of its common stock,

(ii) Restricted Subsidiaries may declare and pay dividends ratably with respect to their capital stock, membership or partnership interests or other similar Equity Interests,

(iii) the Borrower may declare and pay dividends or make other distributions to Holdings, the proceeds of which are used by Holdings or a parent to purchase or redeem Equity Interests of Holdings or a parent acquired by employees, consultants or directors of Holdings, the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary; provided that the aggregate amount of such purchases or redemptions under this clause (iii) shall not exceed the greater of (x) $7,500,000 and (y) 10% of TTM Consolidated EBITDA as of the date of such Restricted Payment in any fiscal year (and, to the extent that the aggregate amount of purchases or redemptions made in any fiscal year pursuant to this clause (iii)) is less than the greater of (x) $7,500,000 and (y) 10% of TTM Consolidated EBITDA as of the date of such Restricted Payment, any outstanding amounts from such year (or any prior year) may be carried forward and used for such purpose in any following fiscal year; provided that in any such case (A) no Specified Default has occurred and is continuing or would result therefrom and (B) immediately after giving effect to any such purchase or redemption, the Borrower shall be in Pro Forma Compliance with the Financial Covenant,

(iv) the Borrower may make Restricted Payments to Holdings to pay (or to make a payment to Clearwater or any direct or indirect parent of Holdings to enable it to pay) corporate overhead expenses incurred in the ordinary course and as may be necessary to permit Clearwater or Holdings (or any direct or indirect parent thereof) to pay their expenses and liabilities incurred in the ordinary course, including, without limitation, (A) customary and reasonable salary, bonus and other compensation and benefits payable to officers, employees and consultants of Clearwater, Holdings or any direct or indirect parent thereof, (B) customary and reasonable fees and expenses paid to members of the board of directors

 

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of Clearwater, Holdings or any direct or indirect parent thereof or payments in respect of indemnification obligations to such board members, (C) reasonable general corporate overhead expenses of Clearwater, Holdings or any direct or indirect parent thereof, to the extent allocable to the operations of the Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries, (D) franchise taxes and other similar licensing expenses, in each case required to maintain its corporate existence, (E) fees and expenses (other than to Affiliates) relating to any unsuccessful debt or equity financing, and (F) the Public Company Costs,

(v) (A) with respect to any taxable period (or portion thereof) with respect to which the Borrower and/or any of its Subsidiaries are members (or disregarded entities thereof) of a consolidated, combined or similar income tax group for U.S. federal and/or applicable state or local income tax purposes of which Holdings or a direct or indirect parent thereof is a member (or a disregarded entity thereof) (a “Tax Group”), the Borrower may make Restricted Payments to Holdings (or any such parent) in an amount necessary to enable Holdings (or such parent, as applicable) to pay the portion of any consolidated, combined or similar U.S. federal, state or local income Taxes (as applicable) of such Tax Group for such taxable period that are directly attributable to the taxable income of the Borrower and/or its applicable Subsidiaries; provided, that the amount of any such Restricted Payments pursuant to this clause (v)(A) shall not exceed the amount of such Taxes that the Borrower and/or its applicable Subsidiaries would have paid had the Borrower and/or such Subsidiaries, as applicable, been a stand-alone corporate taxpayer (or a stand-alone corporate group); provided, further, that the payment of Restricted Payments pursuant to this clause (v)(A) in respect of an Unrestricted Subsidiary shall be permitted only to the extent that cash distributions were made by such Unrestricted Subsidiary to the Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries for such purpose; and (B) with respect to any taxable period (or portion thereof) for which each of Holdings and the Borrower is treated as a partnership for U.S. federal income tax purposes, any payments, dividends or distributions by the Borrower or any Subsidiary to its parent, and by Holdings (or its direct or indirect parent thereof) to CWAN Holdings LLC in order to fund the distributions required by Section 4.1(a) of the Operating Agreement,

(vi) cashless repurchases of Equity Interests of Holdings deemed to occur upon exercise of stock options or warrants or upon vesting of common stock, if such Equity Interests represent a portion of the exercise price or withholding obligations of such options, warrants or common stock,

(vii) the Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may make a payment of any dividend or other distribution or the consummation of any irrevocable redemption within 60 days after the date of declaration of the dividend or giving of the redemption notice, as the case may be, if at the date of declaration or notice, the dividend or redemption payment would have complied with the provisions of this Agreement (provided that such date of declaration or giving of notice of redemption shall be deemed to be a Restricted Payment and shall utilize capacity under another provision of this Section 6.08),

(viii) so long as no Default or Event of Default has occurred and is continuing or would result therefrom, the Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may make payments, directly or indirectly, to Holdings or any other direct or indirect parent company of the Borrower to pay management, consulting and advisory fees or any other amounts payable to any Permitted Holder to the extent permitted by Section 6.09,

 

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(ix) (x) Borrower may make distributions, directly or indirectly, to Holdings or any direct or indirect parent thereof to enable the applicable entity to pay fees and expenses in connection with the Transactions and (y) Borrower may directly or indirectly pay an annual cash Restricted Payment to its direct or indirect equity holders in an aggregate amount not exceeding the sum of (i) 6.0% per annum of the Net Proceeds received by Holdings from the IPO and (ii) an aggregate amount per annum not to exceed 7.0% of Market Capitalization (such distributions, a “Permitted Distribution”),

(x) the Borrower and the Restricted Subsidiaries may make additional Restricted Payments, directly or indirectly, to Clearwater or any direct or indirect parent thereof, in an aggregate amount not exceeding the Available Amount immediately prior to the time of the making of such Restricted Payment; provided that (x) no Specified Default has occurred and is continuing or would result therefrom and (y) solely to the extent such Restricted Payment is attributable to the Retained Net Income Basket, immediately after giving effect to such Restricted Payment on a Pro Forma Basis, the Total Net Leverage Ratio does not exceed 4.25:1.00,

(xi) the Borrower may make Restricted Payments to Holdings to pay (or to pay Clearwater or any direct or indirect parent of Holdings) any non-recurring fees, cash charges and cost expenses incurred in connection with the issuance of Equity Interests or Indebtedness, in each case only to the extent that such transaction is not consummated,

(xii) additional Restricted Payments long as (i) at the time of making such Restricted Payment, no Specified Default shall have occurred and be continuing and (ii) on a Pro Forma Basis, immediately after giving effect to the making of such Restricted Payment (together with any related issuance or incurrence of Indebtedness) as if such Restricted Payment had been made on the first day of the applicable period, the Total Net Leverage Ratio as of the most recent Test Period prior to the making of (or committing to make, at the option of the Borrower) such Restricted Payment shall be no greater than 3.75:1.00, and,

(xiii) additional Restricted Payments in an aggregate amount not to exceed the greater of (x) $25,000,000 and (y) 35% of TTM Consolidated EBITDA as of the date of such Restricted Payment,

(xiv) the Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may make payments for the repurchase of Equity Interests deemed to occur upon the exercise of options, rights or warrants to the extent such Equity Interests represent a portion of the exercise price of those options, rights or warrants,

(xv) the Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may make cash payments in lieu of fractional shares issuable as dividends on preferred stock or upon the conversion of any convertible debt securities of the Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries,

(xvi) payment of fees and reimbursement of other expenses permitted by Section 6.09 shall be permitted, and

 

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(xvii) Borrower shall be entitled to make Restricted Payments to Holdings (and Holdings shall be entitled to make distributions to Clearwater or any direct or indirect parent of Holdings) to the extent necessary to satisfy any obligation under the Tax Receivable Agreement,

and provided further that cancellation of Indebtedness owing to the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary from members of management of the Borrower, any of the Borrower’s direct or indirect parent companies or any of the Borrower’s Restricted Subsidiaries in connection with a repurchase of Equity Interests of any of the Borrower’s direct or indirect parent companies will not be deemed to constitute a Restricted Payment.

(b) The Borrower will not, and will not permit any Restricted Subsidiary to, make, directly or indirectly, any payment or other distribution (whether in cash, securities or other property) of or in respect of principal of or interest on, or any payment or other distribution (whether in cash, securities or other property), including any sinking fund or similar deposit, on account of the purchase, redemption, retirement, acquisition, cancellation or termination of any Subordinated Indebtedness (other than the intercompany loans among Restricted Subsidiaries and the Borrower) (“Specified Indebtedness”), except:

(i) payment of regularly scheduled interest and principal payments as and when due in respect of any Indebtedness, other than, in the case of Subordinated Indebtedness, as prohibited by the subordination provisions thereof,

(ii) the conversion or exchange of any Specified Indebtedness into, or redemption, repurchase, prepayment, defeasance or other retirement of any such Indebtedness with the Net Proceeds of the issuance by Holdings or a parent of Equity Interests (or capital contributions in respect thereof) of Holdings or a parent after the Closing Date to the extent not Otherwise Applied, plus any fees and expenses in connection with such conversion, exchange, redemption, repurchase, prepayment, defeasance or other retirement,

(iii) the prepayment, redemption, defeasance, repurchase or other retirement of Specified Indebtedness for an aggregate purchase price not to exceed the Available Amount; provided that (x) no Event of Default has occurred and is continuing or would result therefrom and (y) solely to the extent such prepayment, redemption, defeasance, repurchase or other retirement is attributable to the Retained Net Income Basket, immediately after giving effect to such prepayment, redemption, defeasance, repurchase or other retirement of Specified Indebtedness on a Pro Forma Basis, the Total Net Leverage Ratio does not exceed 4.25:1.00,

(iv) additional prepayments, redemptions, defeasances, repurchases or other retirements as long as (i) at the time of making such prepayment, redemption, defeasance, repurchase or other retirement, no Specified Default shall have occurred and be continuing and (ii) on a Pro Forma Basis, immediately after giving effect to the making of such prepayment, redemption, defeasance, repurchase or other retirement (together with any related issuance or incurrence of Indebtedness) as if such prepayment, redemption, defeasance, repurchase or other retirement had been made on the first day of the applicable period, the Total Net Leverage Ratio as of the most recent Test Period prior to the making of (or committing to make, at the option of the Borrower) such prepayment, redemption, defeasance, repurchase or other retirement shall be no greater than 3.75:1.00,

 

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(v) additional prepayments, redemptions, defeasances, repurchases or other retirements of Specified Indebtedness in an aggregate amount not to exceed the greater of (x) $25,000,000 and (y) 35% of TTM Consolidated EBITDA as of the date of such prepayments, redemption, defeasance, repurchase or other retirement, and

(vi) refinancings of Indebtedness to the extent the Indebtedness being incurred in connection with such refinancing is a Permitted Refinancing.

SECTION 6.09 Transactions with Affiliates. The Borrower will not, and will not permit any Restricted Subsidiary to, sell, lease, transfer or otherwise dispose of any property or assets to, or purchase, lease or otherwise acquire any property or assets from, or otherwise engage in any other transactions with, any of its Affiliates, involving aggregate payments or consideration in excess of $5,000,000 for any individual transaction or series of related transactions, except:

(a) transactions that are at prices and on terms and conditions, taken as a whole, not materially less favorable to the Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary that could be obtained on arm’s-length transaction basis from unrelated third parties other than an Affiliate,

(b) transactions between or among Holdings, the Borrower, and the Subsidiary Loan Parties,

(c) any Investment permitted under Section 6.04(d), 6.04(e), 6.04(g) or 6.04(m),

(d) any Indebtedness permitted under Section 6.01(v) and Section 6.01(xii),

(e) any Restricted Payment permitted under Section 6.08,

(f) loans or advances to employees permitted under Section 6.04(e),

(g) any lease entered into between the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary, as lessee, and any of the Affiliates of the Borrower or entity controlled by such Affiliates, as lessor, which is approved in good faith by a majority of the disinterested members of the Board of Directors of the Borrower and for which the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary delivers to the Administrative Agent a letter from an accounting, appraisal or investment banking firm of national standing stating that such lease is fair to the Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary from a financial point of view,

(h) the Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries may pay, or may pay cash dividends to enable Holdings to pay, so long as no Default described in Section 7.01(b) and no Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, fees in respect of any financings, acquisitions or dispositions with respect to which any Permitted Holder acts as an adviser

 

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to Holdings, the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary in an amount not to exceed 2.0% of the value of any such transaction; provided, any fees not paid under this Section 6.09(h) due to the existence of a Default described in Section 7.01(b) or an Event of Default shall be deferred and may be paid when no such Default or Event of Default exists or would arise as a result of such payment,

(i) any contribution to the capital of Holdings directly or indirectly by the Permitted Holders or any purchase of Equity Interests of Holdings by the Permitted Holders not prohibited by this Agreement,

(j) the payment of reasonable fees to directors of Holdings, the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary who are not employees of Holdings, the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary, and compensation and employee benefit plans and arrangements paid to, and indemnities provided for the benefit of, directors, officers, consultants or employees of Holdings, the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary in the ordinary course of business,

(k) any issuances of Equity Interests, securities or other payments, awards or grants in cash, securities or otherwise pursuant to, or the funding of, employment agreements, stock options and stock ownership plans approved by the Borrower’s or Holdings’ Board of Directors (or a committee thereof),

(l) transactions pursuant to agreements set forth on Schedule 6.09 and any amendments thereto to the extent such amendments are not materially less favorable to the Borrower or such Subsidiary Loan Party than those provided for in the original agreements,

(m) any employment, consulting, change of control and severance arrangements entered into in the ordinary course of business between a parent, Holdings, the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary and any officer, consultant or employee thereof,

(n) payments by the Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries of reasonable insurance premiums to, and any borrowings or dividends received from, any Captive Insurance Subsidiary,

(o) transactions with customers, suppliers, contractors, joint venture partners or purchasers or sellers of goods or services, in each case which are in the ordinary course of business (including, without limitation, pursuant to joint venture agreements) and otherwise in compliance with the terms of this Agreement which are approved in good faith by a majority of the disinterested members of the Board of Directors of the Borrower and for which the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary delivers to the Administrative Agent a letter from an accounting, appraisal or investment banking firm of national standing stating that such transaction is fair to the Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary, as applicable, from a financial point of view,

(p) the entering into of any tax sharing agreement or arrangement with Holdings or any direct or indirect parent company of the Borrower and any payments thereunder by the Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries to Holdings or any parent to the extent permitted by Section 6.08(a)(iv),

 

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(q) the issuance of Equity Interests (other than Disqualified Stock) (i) of Holdings to Affiliates of Holdings or (ii) of Holdings or any Restricted Subsidiary for compensation purposes,

(r) non-exclusive intellectual property licenses not materially interfering with the conduct of the Borrower’s business in the ordinary course of business,

(s) the Transactions (including Transaction Expenses) and the payment of fees and expenses as part of or in connection with the Transactions, and

(t) the entering into of the Tax Receivable Agreement and the assumption or performance of any obligations under the Tax Receivable Agreement.

SECTION 6.10 Restrictive Agreements.

(a) Subject to clauses (b) through (d) below, the Borrower will not, and will not permit any Restricted Subsidiary to, directly or indirectly, enter into, incur or permit to exist any agreement or other arrangement that prohibits, restricts or imposes any condition upon (i) the ability of Holdings, the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary to create, incur or permit to exist any Lien upon any of its property or assets or (ii) the ability of any Restricted Subsidiary to pay dividends or other distributions with respect to any shares of its capital stock or to make or repay loans or advances to the Borrower or any other Restricted Subsidiary or to Guarantee Indebtedness of the Borrower or any other Restricted Subsidiary.

(b) The foregoing clause (a) shall not apply to restrictions and conditions (i) imposed by law or by any Loan Document, documentation governing any Permitted Refinancing (provided that such restrictions are not materially more restrictive (as determined in good faith by the Borrower), taken as a whole, than those contained in such agreements governing the Indebtedness being refinanced), or Indebtedness of a Foreign Subsidiary permitted to be incurred under this Agreement (provided that such restrictions shall apply only to such Foreign Subsidiary), (ii) existing on the Closing Date identified on Schedule 6.10 (and shall not apply to any extension or renewal of, or any amendment or modification expanding the scope of, any such restriction or condition), (iii) contained in agreements relating to the sale of a Restricted Subsidiary pending such sale; provided such restrictions and conditions apply only to the Restricted Subsidiary that is to be sold and such sale is permitted hereunder, (iv) contained in agreements relating to the acquisition of property; provided that such restrictions and conditions apply only to the property so acquired and were not created in connection with or in anticipation of such acquisitions and (v) imposed by any customary provisions restricting assignment of any agreement entered into the ordinary course of business.

(c) The foregoing clause (a)(i) shall not apply to restrictions or conditions (i) imposed by any agreement relating to Secured Indebtedness permitted by this Agreement if such restrictions or conditions apply only to the property or assets securing such Indebtedness and (ii) imposed by customary provisions in leases restricting the assignment thereof.

(d) The foregoing clause (a)(ii) shall not apply (x) to customary provisions in joint venture agreements relating to purchase options, rights of first refusal or call or similar rights of a third party that owns Equity Interests in such joint venture or (y) to customary restrictions on leases, subleases, licenses, cross-licenses, sublicenses or asset sale agreements otherwise permitted hereby so long as such restrictions relate solely to the property interest, rights or the assets subject thereto.

 

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(e) For purposes of determining compliance with this Section 6.10, (i) the priority of any preferred stock in receiving dividends or liquidating distributions prior to dividends or liquidating distributions being paid on common stock shall not be deemed a restriction on the ability to make distributions on Equity Interests and (ii) the subordination of loans or advances made to the Borrower or a Restricted Subsidiary of the Borrower to other Indebtedness incurred by the Borrower or any such Restricted Subsidiary shall not be deemed a restriction on the ability to make loans or advances.

SECTION 6.11 Amendment of Material Documents. The Borrower will not, and will not permit any Restricted Subsidiary to, amend, modify or waive any of its rights under (a) the documentation governing any Permitted Securities or (b) its Organizational Documents to the extent such amendment, modification or waiver would be materially adverse to the Lenders.

SECTION 6.12 Maximum Secured Net Leverage Ratio .

The Borrower will not permit the Secured Net Leverage Ratio to be greater than 4.75:1.00 as of the last day of each fiscal quarter commencing with the fiscal quarter ending December 31, 2021.

SECTION 6.13 Fiscal Year. The Borrower will not, and will not permit any Restricted Subsidiary to, change its fiscal year to end on any date other than December 31.

ARTICLE VII

Events of Default

SECTION 7.01 Events of Default. If any of the following events (any such event, an “Event of Default”) shall occur:

(a) the Borrower shall fail to pay any principal of any Loan or any reimbursement obligation in respect of any LC Disbursement when and as the same shall become due and payable, whether at the due date thereof or at a date fixed for prepayment thereof or otherwise,

(b) the Borrower shall fail to pay any interest on any Loan or any fee or any other amount (other than an amount referred to in paragraph (a) of this Section 7.01) payable under this Agreement or any other Loan Document, when and as the same shall become due and payable, and such failure shall continue unremedied for a period of five (5) Business Days,

 

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(c) any representation or warranty made or deemed made by or on behalf of Holdings, the Borrower or any Subsidiary Loan Party in or in connection with any Loan Document or any amendment or modification thereof or waiver thereunder, or in any report, certificate, financial statement or other document furnished pursuant to or in connection with any Loan Document or any amendment or modification thereof or waiver thereunder, shall prove to have been incorrect in any material respect (except to the extent any such representation or warranty is qualified by “materially”, “Material Adverse Effect” or a similar term, in which case such representation or warranty shall prove to have been incorrect in any respect) when made or deemed made,

(d) the Borrower or, in the case of Section 6.03, Holdings, fails to (or, to the extent applicable, fails to cause any Restricted Subsidiary to) observe or perform any covenant, condition or agreement contained in Section 5.02(a), Section 5.04 (solely with respect to the existence of the Borrower) or in Article VI; provided that the Financial Covenant is subject to cure pursuant to Section 7.02,

(e) Holdings, the Borrower or any Subsidiary Loan Party shall fail to observe or perform any covenant, condition or agreement contained in any Loan Document (other than those specified in paragraph (a), (b), (c) or (d) of this Section 7.01), and such failure shall continue unremedied for a period of 30 days after receipt by the Borrower of notice thereof from the Administrative Agent (which notice will be given at the request of any Lender),

(f) any event or condition occurs that results in any Material Indebtedness becoming due prior to its scheduled maturity or that enables or permits (with the giving of notice, the lapse of time or both) the holder or holders of any Material Indebtedness or any trustee or agent on its or their behalf to cause any Material Indebtedness to become due, or to require the prepayment, repurchase, redemption or defeasance thereof, prior to its scheduled maturity (other than, with respect to Indebtedness consisting of Swap Agreements, as a result of any termination events or equivalent events (other than any additional termination events (or equivalent events)) and not as a result of any other default thereunder by any Loan Party); provided that this paragraph (f) shall not apply to Secured Indebtedness that becomes due solely as a result of the voluntary sale or transfer of the property or assets (to the extent not prohibited under this Agreement) securing such Indebtedness; provided, further, that such failure is unremedied and is not waived by the holders of such Indebtedness prior to any termination of the Commitments or acceleration of the Loans hereunder,

(g) an involuntary proceeding shall be commenced or an involuntary petition shall be filed seeking (i) liquidation, reorganization or other relief in respect of Holdings, the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary or its debts, or of a substantial part of its assets, under any federal, state or foreign bankruptcy, insolvency, receivership or similar law now or hereafter in effect or (ii) the appointment of a receiver, trustee, custodian, sequestrator, conservator or similar official for Holdings, the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary or for a substantial part of its assets, and, in any such case, such proceeding or petition shall continue undismissed for 60 days or an order or decree approving or ordering any of the foregoing shall be entered,

 

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(h) Holdings, the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary shall (i) voluntarily commence any proceeding or file any petition seeking liquidation, reorganization or other relief under any federal, state or foreign bankruptcy, insolvency, receivership or similar law now or hereafter in effect, (ii) consent to the institution of, or fail to contest in a timely and appropriate manner, any proceeding or petition described in paragraph (g) of this Section 7.01, (iii) apply for or consent to the appointment of a receiver, trustee, custodian, sequestrator, conservator or similar official for Holdings, the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary or for a substantial part of its assets, (iv) file an answer admitting the material allegations of a petition filed against it in any such proceeding, (v) make a general assignment for the benefit of creditors or (vi) take any formal action for the purpose of effecting any of the foregoing,

(i) one or more judgments for the payment of money (to the extent not paid or covered by independent third-party insurance or indemnity as to which the insurer or applicable indemnitor has been notified of such judgment or order and has not denied coverage or indemnity) in an aggregate amount in excess of the greater of (x) $25,000,000 and (y) 35% of TTM Consolidated EBITDA as of the date of such of determination shall be rendered against Holdings, the Borrower, any Restricted Subsidiary or any combination thereof and the same shall remain undischarged for a period of 60 consecutive days during which execution shall not be effectively stayed, or any action shall be legally taken by a judgment creditor to attach or levy upon any assets of Holdings, the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary to enforce any such judgment,

(j) (i) an ERISA Event occurs that, when taken together with all other ERISA Events that have occurred, has resulted or would reasonably be expected to result in liability of a Loan Party or an ERISA Affiliate in an aggregate amount which would reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect, or (ii) a Loan Party or any ERISA Affiliate fails to pay when due, after the expiration of any applicable grace period, any installment payment with respect to its Withdrawal Liability under Section 4201 of ERISA under a Multiemployer Plan in an aggregate amount which would reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect,

(k) any Lien purported to be created under any Security Document shall cease to be, or shall be asserted by any Loan Party not to be, a valid and perfected Lien on any Collateral with a fair value in excess of $25,000,000, with the priority required by the applicable Security Document, except (i) as a result of the sale or other disposition of the applicable Collateral in a transaction permitted under the Loan Documents or (ii) as a result of the Collateral Agent’s failure to maintain possession of any stock certificates, promissory notes or other instruments delivered to it under the Collateral Agreement,

(l) any Loan Document shall for any reason be asserted by any Loan Party not to be a legal, valid and binding obligation of any party thereto,

(m) the Guarantees of the Obligations by Holdings and the Subsidiary Loan Parties pursuant to the Collateral Agreement shall cease to be in full force and effect (other than in accordance with the terms of the Loan Documents) or shall be asserted by Holdings, the Borrower or any Subsidiary Loan Party not to be in effect or not to be legal, valid and binding obligations,

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(o) a Change of Control shall occur;

then, and in every such event (other than an event with respect to the Borrower described in paragraph (g) or (h) of this Section 7.01), and at any time thereafter during the continuance of such event, (x) the Revolver Agent may, and at the request of the Required Revolving Lenders shall, by notice to the Borrower, terminate the Revolving Commitments, and thereupon the Revolving Commitments shall terminate immediately, and (y) the Administrative Agent may, and, in the case of the following clause (i), at the request of the Required Term Lenders and, in the case of the following clause (ii), at the request of the Required Lenders, shall, by notice to the Borrower, take either or both of the following actions, at the same or different times: (i) terminate the Commitments in respect of the Term Loans, and thereupon such Commitments shall terminate immediately, and (ii) declare the Loans then outstanding to be due and payable in whole (or in part, in which case any principal not so declared to be due and payable may thereafter be declared to be due and payable), and thereupon the principal of the Loans so declared to be due and payable, together with accrued interest thereon and all fees and other obligations of the Borrower accrued hereunder, shall become due and payable immediately, without presentment, demand, protest or other notice of any kind, all of which are hereby waived by the Borrower, and the Revolving Commitments of each Revolving Lender shall immediately terminate; and in case of any event with respect to the Borrower described in paragraph (g) or (h) of this Section 7.01, the Commitments shall automatically terminate and the principal of the Loans then outstanding, together with accrued interest thereon and all fees and other obligations of the Borrower accrued hereunder, shall automatically become due and payable, without presentment, demand, protest or other notice of any kind, all of which are hereby waived by the Borrower.

SECTION 7.02 Borrowers Right to Cure.

(a) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in Section 7.01, in the event that the Borrower fails to comply with the requirements of the Financial Covenant set forth in Section 6.12 (a “Financial Covenant Default”), after the last day of the fiscal period for which the Financial Covenant is being measured, but on or prior to the date that is 10 Business Days subsequent to the date on which financial statements with respect to such fiscal period are required to be delivered pursuant to Section 5.01, Holdings shall have the right to issue Permitted Securities (or any other contribution to capital or sale or issuance of any other Equity Interests on terms reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent), the proceeds of which Holdings will contribute in cash to the Borrower as common equity or other equity on terms reasonably acceptable to the Administrative Agent (collectively, the “Cure Right”); provided that at the Borrower’s option, the Borrower may elect to exercise such Cure Right prior to the date of the delivery of the applicable financial statements if the Borrower reasonably determines that it will fail to comply with the requirements of the Financial Covenant upon the delivery of such financial statements, and upon the receipt by the Borrower of such cash (the “Cure Amount”) pursuant to the exercise by the Borrower of such Cure Right, the Financial Covenant shall be recalculated giving effect to the following pro forma adjustments:

(i) Consolidated EBITDA shall be increased, solely for the purpose of measuring the Financial Covenant at the end of the applicable fiscal quarter and applicable subsequent periods which include such fiscal quarter and not for any other purpose under this Agreement, by an amount equal to the Cure Amount; and

 

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(ii) if, after giving effect to the foregoing recalculations, the Borrower shall then be in compliance with the requirements of the Financial Covenants, the Borrower shall be deemed to have satisfied the requirements of the Financial Covenant as of the relevant date of determination with the same effect as though there had been no failure to comply therewith at such date, and the applicable breach or default of the Financial Covenant that had occurred shall be deemed cured for the purposes of this Agreement.

(b) Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, (a) in each four-fiscal-quarter period there shall be at least two fiscal quarters in which the Cure Right is not exercised and no more than five (5) Cure Rights shall be exercised in the aggregate following the Closing Date, (b) the Cure Amount shall be no greater than the amount required for purposes of complying with the Financial Covenant and (c) the Cure Amount shall be set forth in an officer’s certificate delivered to the Administrative Agent.

(c) The Cure Right and the effects thereof on determining pricing, financial ratio-based conditions (other than for determining actual compliance with Section 6.12) or any baskets with respect to covenants will be disregarded for all other purposes under the Loan Documents, including, without limitation, for purposes of calculating the leverage ratios as a threshold for permitted exceptions to any affirmative and negative covenants; provided that the reduction in the outstanding principal balance of the Loans due to the application of the proceeds of an the exercise of a Cure Right pursuant to Section 2.11 shall not be taken into account for purposes of determining compliance with the Financial Covenant for the measurement period ending on the last day of the applicable fiscal quarter. In addition, exercise of the Cure Right shall not result in any adjustment to any amounts (including the amount of Indebtedness) or increase in cash (and shall not be included for purposes of determining pricing, mandatory prepayments and the availability or amount permitted pursuant to any covenant under Article VI).

(d) So long as the Borrower is entitled to exercise a Cure Right pursuant to the foregoing terms and provisions of this Section 7.02, neither Administrative Agent, the Revolver Agent nor any Lender shall impose default interest, accelerate the Obligations or exercise any enforcement remedy against any Loan Party or any of its Subsidiaries or any of their respective properties solely on the basis of the applicable Financial Covenant Default; provided that until timely receipt of the Cure Amount, an Event of Default shall be deemed to exist for all other purposes of this Agreement, including, without limitation, any term or provision of any Loan Document which prohibits any action to be taken by a Loan Party or any of its Subsidiaries during the existence of an Event of Default; provided, further, that notwithstanding the foregoing, upon a deemed cure pursuant to Section 7.02(c), the requirements of the applicable Financial Covenant shall be deemed to have been satisfied as of the applicable fiscal quarter with the same effect as though there had been no Financial Covenant Default (and any other Default arising solely as a result thereof) at such date or thereafter.

SECTION 7.03 Exclusion of Immaterial Subsidiaries. Solely for the purposes of determining whether a Default has occurred under clause (g) or (h) of Section 7.01, any reference in any such clause to any Restricted Subsidiary shall be deemed to exclude any Restricted Subsidiary that is not a Material Subsidiary affected by any event or circumstance referred to in any such clause.

 

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ARTICLE VIII

The Administrative Agent

SECTION 8.01 Authorization and Action .

(a) Each Lender and each Issuing Bank hereby irrevocably appoints the entity named as Administrative Agent in the heading of this Agreement and its successors and assigns to serve as the administrative agent, revolver agent and collateral agent under the Loan Documents and each Lender and each Issuing Bank authorizes the Administrative Agent to take such actions as agent on its behalf and to exercise such powers under this Agreement and the other Loan Documents as are delegated to the Administrative Agent under such agreements and to exercise such powers as are reasonably incidental thereto. Without limiting the foregoing, each Lender and each Issuing Bank hereby authorizes the Administrative Agent to execute and deliver, and to perform its obligations under, each of the Loan Documents to which the Administrative Agent is a party, and to exercise all rights, powers and remedies that the Administrative Agent may have under such Loan Documents. For purposes of this Article VIII, each reference to Administrative Agent shall also include the Revolver Agent and the Collateral Agent, as applicable.

(b) As to any matters not expressly provided for herein and in the other Loan Documents (including enforcement or collection), the Administrative Agent shall not be required to exercise any discretion or take any action, but shall be required to act or to refrain from acting (and shall be fully protected in so acting or refraining from acting) upon the written instructions of the Required Lenders (or such other number or percentage of the Lenders as shall be necessary, pursuant to the terms in the Loan Documents), and, unless and until revoked in writing, such instructions shall be binding upon each Lender and each Issuing Bank; provided, however, that the Administrative Agent shall not be required to take any action that (i) the Administrative Agent in good faith believes exposes it to liability unless the Administrative Agent receives an indemnification and is exculpated in a manner satisfactory to it from the Lenders and the Issuing Banks with respect to such action or (ii) is contrary to this Agreement or any other Loan Document or applicable law, including any action that may be in violation of the automatic stay under any requirement of law relating to bankruptcy, insolvency or reorganization or relief of debtors or that may effect a forfeiture, modification or termination of property of a Defaulting Lender in violation of any requirement of law relating to bankruptcy, insolvency or reorganization or relief of debtors; provided, further, that the Administrative Agent may seek clarification or direction from the Required Lenders prior to the exercise of any such instructed action and may refrain from acting until such clarification or direction has been provided. Except as expressly set forth in the Loan Documents, the Administrative Agent shall not have any duty to disclose, and shall not be liable for the failure to disclose, any information relating to the Borrower, any Subsidiary or any Affiliate of any of the foregoing that is communicated to or obtained by the Person serving as Administrative Agent or any of its Affiliates in any capacity. Nothing in this Agreement shall require the Administrative Agent to expend or risk its own funds or otherwise incur any financial liability in the performance of any of its duties hereunder or in the exercise of any of its rights or powers if it shall have reasonable grounds for believing that repayment of such funds or adequate indemnity against such risk or liability is not reasonably assured to it.

 

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(c) In performing its functions and duties hereunder and under the other Loan Documents, the Administrative Agent is acting solely on behalf of the Lenders and the Issuing Banks (except in limited circumstances expressly provided for herein relating to the maintenance of the Register), and its duties are entirely mechanical and administrative in nature. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing:

(i) the Administrative Agent does not assume and shall not be deemed to have assumed any obligation or duty or any other relationship as the agent, fiduciary or trustee of or for any Lender, Issuing Bank or holder of any other obligation other than as expressly set forth herein and in the other Loan Documents, regardless of whether a Default or an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing (and it is understood and agreed that the use of the term “agent” (or any similar term) herein or in any other Loan Document with reference to the Administrative Agent is not intended to connote any fiduciary duty or other implied (or express) obligations arising under agency doctrine of any applicable law, and that such term is used as a matter of market custom and is intended to create or reflect only an administrative relationship between contracting parties); additionally, each Lender agrees that it will not assert any claim against the Administrative Agent based on an alleged breach of fiduciary duty by the Administrative Agent in connection with this Agreement and/or the transactions contemplated hereby; and

(ii) nothing in this Agreement or any Loan Document shall require the Administrative Agent to account to any Lender for any sum or the profit element of any sum received by the Administrative Agent for its own account.

(d) The Administrative Agent may perform any of its duties and exercise its rights and powers hereunder or under any other Loan Document by or through any one or more sub-agents appointed by the Administrative Agent. The Administrative Agent and any such sub-agent may perform any of their respective duties and exercise their respective rights and powers through their respective Related Parties. The exculpatory provisions of this Article shall apply to any such sub-agent and to the Related Parties of the Administrative Agent and any such sub-agent, and shall apply to their respective activities pursuant to this Agreement. The Administrative Agent shall not be responsible for the negligence or misconduct of any sub-agent except to the extent that a court of competent jurisdiction determines in a final and nonappealable judgment that the Administrative Agent acted with gross negligence or willful misconduct in the selection of such sub-agent.

(e) No Arranger shall have obligations or duties whatsoever in such capacity under this Agreement or any other Loan Document and shall incur no liability hereunder or thereunder in such capacity, but all such persons shall have the benefit of the indemnities provided for hereunder.

(f) In case of the pendency of any proceeding with respect to any Loan Party under any Federal, state or foreign bankruptcy, insolvency, receivership or similar law now or hereafter in effect, the Administrative Agent (irrespective of whether the principal of any Loan or any L/C Reimbursement Obligation shall then be due and payable as herein expressed or by declaration or otherwise and irrespective of whether the Administrative Agent shall have made any demand on the Borrower) shall be entitled and empowered (but not obligated) by intervention in such proceeding or otherwise

 

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(i) to file and prove a claim for the whole amount of the principal and interest owing and unpaid in respect of the Loans, LC Disbursements and all other Obligations that are owing and unpaid and to file such other documents as may be necessary or advisable in order to have the claims of the Lenders, the Issuing Banks and the Administrative Agent (including any claim under Sections 2.12, 2.13, 2.15, 2.17 and 9.03) allowed in such judicial proceeding; and

(ii) to collect and receive any monies or other property payable or deliverable on any such claims and to distribute the same;

and any custodian, receiver, assignee, trustee, liquidator, sequestrator or other similar official in any such proceeding is hereby authorized by each Lender, each Issuing Bank and each other Secured Party to make such payments to the Administrative Agent and, in the event that the Administrative Agent shall consent to the making of such payments directly to the Lenders, the Issuing Banks or the other Secured Parties, to pay to the Administrative Agent any amount due to it, in its capacity as the Administrative Agent, under the Loan Documents (including under Section 9.03). Nothing contained herein shall be deemed to authorize the Administrative Agent to authorize or consent to or accept or adopt on behalf of any Lender or any Issuing Bank any plan of reorganization, arrangement, adjustment or composition affecting the Obligations or the rights of any Lender or any Issuing Bank or to authorize the Administrative Agent to vote in respect of the claim of any Lender or any Issuing Bank in any such proceeding

(g) The provisions of this Article are solely for the benefit of the Administrative Agent, the Lenders and the Issuing Banks, and, except solely to the extent of the Borrower’s rights to consent pursuant to and subject to the conditions set forth in this Article, none of the Borrower or any Subsidiary, or any of their respective Affiliates, shall have any rights as a third party beneficiary under any such provisions. Each Secured Party, whether or not a party hereto, will be deemed, by its acceptance of the benefits of the Collateral and of the Guarantees of the Obligations provided under the Loan Documents, to have agreed to the provisions of this Article.

SECTION 8.02 Administrative Agents Reliance, Limitation of Liability, Etc .

(a) Neither the Administrative Agent nor any of its Related Parties shall be (i) liable for any action taken or omitted to be taken by such party, the Administrative Agent or any of its Related Parties under or in connection with this Agreement or the other Loan Documents (x) with the consent of or at the request of the Required Lenders (or such other number or percentage of the Lenders as shall be necessary, or as the Administrative Agent shall believe in good faith to be necessary, under the circumstances as provided in the Loan Documents) or (y) in the absence of its own gross negligence or willful misconduct (such absence to be presumed unless otherwise determined by a court of competent jurisdiction by a final and non-appealable judgment) or (ii) responsible in any manner to any of the Lenders for any recitals, statements, representations or warranties made by any Loan Party or any officer thereof contained in this

 

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Agreement or any other Loan Document or in any certificate, report, statement or other document referred to or provided for in, or received by the Administrative Agent under or in connection with, this Agreement or any other Loan Document or for the value, validity, effectiveness, genuineness, enforceability or sufficiency of this Agreement or any other Loan Document (including, for the avoidance of doubt, in connection with the Administrative Agent’s reliance on any Electronic Signature transmitted by telecopy, emailed pdf. or any other electronic means that reproduces an image of an actual executed signature page) or for any failure of any Loan Party to perform its obligations hereunder or thereunder.

(b) The Administrative Agent shall be deemed not to have knowledge of any (i) notice of any of the events or circumstances set forth or described in Section 5.02 unless and until written notice thereof stating that it is a “notice under Section 5.02” in respect of this Agreement and identifying the specific clause under said Section is given to the Administrative Agent by the Borrower, or (ii) notice of any Default or Event of Default unless and until written notice thereof (stating that it is a “notice of Default” or a “notice of an Event of Default”) is given to the Administrative Agent by the Borrower, a Lender or an Issuing Bank. Further, the Administrative Agent shall not be responsible for or have any duty to ascertain or inquire into (i) any statement, warranty or representation made in or in connection with any Loan Document, (ii) the contents of any certificate, report or other document delivered thereunder or in connection therewith, (iii) the performance or observance of any of the covenants, agreements or other terms or conditions set forth in any Loan Document or the occurrence of any Default or Event of Default, (iv) the sufficiency, validity, enforceability, effectiveness or genuineness of any Loan Document or any other agreement, instrument or document, (v) the satisfaction of any condition set forth in Article IV or elsewhere in any Loan Document, other than to confirm receipt of items (which on their face purport to be such items) expressly required to be delivered to the Administrative Agent or satisfaction of any condition that expressly refers to the matters described therein being acceptable or satisfactory to the Administrative Agent, or (vi) the creation, perfection or priority of Liens on the Collateral or (vii) compliance by Affiliated Lenders with the terms hereof relating to Affiliated Lenders. Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, the Administrative Agent shall not be liable for, or be responsible for any Liabilities, costs or expenses suffered by the Borrower, any Subsidiary, any Lender or any Issuing Bank as a result of, any determination of the Revolving Exposure, any of the component amounts thereof or any portion thereof attributable to each Lender or Issuing Bank.

(c) Without limiting the foregoing, the Administrative Agent (i) may treat the payee of any promissory note as its holder until such promissory note has been assigned in accordance with Section 9.04, (ii) may rely on the Register to the extent set forth in Section 9.04(b), (iii) may consult with legal counsel (including counsel to the Borrower), independent public accountants and other experts selected by it, and shall not be liable for any action taken or omitted to be taken in good faith by it in accordance with the advice of such counsel, accountants or experts, (iv) makes no warranty or representation to any Lender or Issuing Bank and shall not be responsible to any Lender or Issuing Bank for any statements, warranties or representations made by or on behalf of any Loan Party in connection with this Agreement or any other Loan Document, (v) in determining compliance with any condition hereunder to the making of a Loan, or the issuance of a Letter of Credit, that by its terms must be fulfilled to the satisfaction of a Lender or an Issuing Bank, may presume that such condition is satisfactory to such Lender or Issuing Bank unless the Administrative Agent shall have received notice to the contrary from

 

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such Lender or Issuing Bank sufficiently in advance of the making of such Loan or the issuance of such Letter of Credit and (vi) shall be entitled to rely on, and shall incur no liability under or in respect of this Agreement or any other Loan Document by acting upon, any notice, consent, certificate or other instrument or writing (which writing may be a fax, any electronic message, Internet or intranet website posting or other distribution) or any statement made to it orally or by telephone and believed by it to be genuine and signed or sent or otherwise authenticated by the proper party or parties (whether or not such Person in fact meets the requirements set forth in the Loan Documents for being the maker thereof).

SECTION 8.03 Posting of Communications .

(a) The Borrower agrees that the Administrative Agent may, but shall not be obligated to, make any Communications available to the Lenders and the Issuing Banks by posting the Communications on IntraLinks, DebtDomain, SyndTrak, ClearPar or any other electronic platform chosen by the Administrative Agent to be its electronic transmission system (the “Approved Electronic Platform”).

(b) Although the Approved Electronic Platform and its primary web portal are secured with generally-applicable security procedures and policies implemented or modified by the Administrative Agent from time to time (including, as of the Closing Date, a user ID/password authorization system) and the Approved Electronic Platform is secured through a per-deal authorization method whereby each user may access the Approved Electronic Platform only on a deal-by-deal basis, each of the Lenders, each of the Issuing Banks and the Borrower acknowledges and agrees that the distribution of material through an electronic medium is not necessarily secure, that the Administrative Agent is not responsible for approving or vetting the representatives or contacts of any Lender that are added to the Approved Electronic Platform, and that there may be confidentiality and other risks associated with such distribution. Each of the Lenders, each of the Issuing Banks and the Borrower hereby approves distribution of the Communications through the Approved Electronic Platform and understands and assumes the risks of such distribution.

(c) THE APPROVED ELECTRONIC PLATFORM AND THE COMMUNICATIONS ARE PROVIDED “AS IS” AND “AS AVAILABLE”. THE APPLICABLE PARTIES (AS DEFINED BELOW) DO NOT WARRANT THE ACCURACY OR COMPLETENESS OF THE COMMUNICATIONS, OR THE ADEQUACY OF THE APPROVED ELECTRONIC PLATFORM AND EXPRESSLY DISCLAIM LIABILITY FOR ERRORS OR OMISSIONS IN THE APPROVED ELECTRONIC PLATFORM AND THE COMMUNICATIONS. NO WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS, IMPLIED OR STATUTORY, INCLUDING ANY WARRANTY OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, NON-INFRINGEMENT OF THIRD PARTY RIGHTS OR FREEDOM FROM VIRUSES OR OTHER CODE DEFECTS, IS MADE BY THE APPLICABLE PARTIES IN CONNECTION WITH THE COMMUNICATIONS OR THE APPROVED ELECTRONIC PLATFORM. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE ADMINISTRATIVE AGENT, ANY ARRANGER OR ANY OF THEIR RESPECTIVE RELATED PARTIES (COLLECTIVELY, “APPLICABLE PARTIES”) HAVE ANY LIABILITY TO ANY LOAN PARTY, ANY LENDER, ANY ISSUING BANK OR ANY OTHER PERSON OR ENTITY FOR DAMAGES OF ANY KIND, INCLUDING DIRECT OR INDIRECT, SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES, LOSSES OR EXPENSES (WHETHER IN TORT, CONTRACT OR OTHERWISE) ARISING OUT OF ANY LOAN PARTY’S OR THE ADMINISTRATIVE AGENT’S TRANSMISSION OF COMMUNICATIONS THROUGH THE INTERNET OR THE APPROVED ELECTRONIC PLATFORM.

 

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Communications” means, collectively, any notice, demand, communication, information, document or other material provided by or on behalf of any Loan Party pursuant to any Loan Document or the transactions contemplated therein which is distributed by the Administrative Agent, any Lender or any Issuing Bank by means of electronic communications pursuant to this Section, including through an Approved Electronic Platform.

(d) Each Lender and each Issuing Bank agrees that notice to it (as provided in the next sentence) specifying that Communications have been posted to the Approved Electronic Platform shall constitute effective delivery of the Communications to such Lender for purposes of the Loan Documents. Each Lender and each Issuing Bank agrees (i) to notify the Administrative Agent in writing (which could be in the form of electronic communication) from time to time of such Lender’s or such Issuing Bank’s (as applicable) email address to which the foregoing notice may be sent by electronic transmission and (ii) that the foregoing notice may be sent to such email address.

(e) Each of the Lenders, each of the Issuing Banks and the Borrower agrees that the Administrative Agent may, but (except as may be required by applicable law) shall not be obligated to, store the Communications on the Approved Electronic Platform in accordance with the Administrative Agent’s generally applicable document retention procedures and policies.

(f) Nothing herein shall prejudice the right of the Administrative Agent, any Lender or any Issuing Bank to give any notice or other communication pursuant to any Loan Document in any other manner specified in such Loan Document.

SECTION 8.04 The Administrative Agent Individually . With respect to its Commitment, Loans (including Swingline Loans), Letter of Credit Commitments and Letters of Credit, the Person serving as the Administrative Agent shall have and may exercise the same rights and powers hereunder and is subject to the same obligations and liabilities as and to the extent set forth herein for any other Lender or Issuing Bank, as the case may be. The terms “Issuing Banks”, “Lenders”, “Required Lenders” and any similar terms shall, unless the context clearly otherwise indicates, include the Administrative Agent in its individual capacity as a Lender, Issuing Bank or as one of the Required Lenders, as applicable. The Person serving as the Administrative Agent and its Affiliates may accept deposits from, lend money to, own securities of, act as the financial advisor or in any other advisory capacity for and generally engage in any kind of banking, trust or other business with, the Borrower, any Subsidiary or any Affiliate of any of the foregoing as if such Person was not acting as the Administrative Agent and without any duty to account therefor to the Lenders or the Issuing Banks.

 

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SECTION 8.05 Successor Administrative Agent .

(a) The Administrative Agent may resign at any time by giving 30 days’ prior written notice thereof to the Lenders, the Issuing Banks and the Borrower, whether or not a successor Administrative Agent has been appointed. Upon any such resignation, the Required Lenders shall have the right to appoint a successor Administrative Agent. If no successor Administrative Agent shall have been so appointed by the Required Lenders, and shall have accepted such appointment, within 30 days after the retiring Administrative Agent’s giving of notice of resignation, then the retiring Administrative Agent may, on behalf of the Lenders and the Issuing Banks, appoint a successor Administrative Agent, which shall be a bank with an office in New York, New York or an Affiliate of any such bank. In either case, such appointment shall be subject to the prior written approval of the Borrower (which approval may not be unreasonably withheld and shall not be required while an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing). Upon the acceptance of any appointment as Administrative Agent by a successor Administrative Agent, such successor Administrative Agent shall succeed to, and become vested with, all the rights, powers, privileges and duties of the retiring Administrative Agent. Upon the acceptance of appointment as Administrative Agent by a successor Administrative Agent, the retiring Administrative Agent shall be discharged from its duties and obligations under this Agreement and the other Loan Documents. Prior to any retiring Administrative Agent’s resignation hereunder as Administrative Agent, the retiring Administrative Agent shall take such action as may be reasonably necessary to assign to the successor Administrative Agent its rights as Administrative Agent under the Loan Documents.

(b) Notwithstanding paragraph (a) of this Section, in the event no successor Administrative Agent shall have been so appointed and shall have accepted such appointment within 30 days after the retiring Administrative Agent gives notice of its intent to resign, the retiring Administrative Agent may give notice of the effectiveness of its resignation to the Lenders, the Issuing Banks and the Borrower, whereupon, on the date of effectiveness of such resignation stated in such notice, (i) the retiring Administrative Agent shall be discharged from its duties and obligations hereunder and under the other Loan Documents; provided that, solely for purposes of maintaining any security interest granted to the Administrative Agent under any Security Document for the benefit of the Secured Parties, the retiring Administrative Agent shall continue to be vested with such security interest as collateral agent for the benefit of the Secured Parties, and continue to be entitled to the rights set forth in such Security Document and Loan Document, and, in the case of any Collateral in the possession of the Administrative Agent, shall continue to hold such Collateral, in each case until such time as a successor Administrative Agent is appointed and accepts such appointment in accordance with this Section (it being understood and agreed that the retiring Administrative Agent shall have no duty or obligation to take any further action under any Security Document, including any action required to maintain the perfection of any such security interest), and (ii) the Required Lenders shall succeed to and become vested with all the rights, powers, privileges and duties of the retiring Administrative Agent; provided that (A) all payments required to be made hereunder or under any other Loan Document to the Administrative Agent for the account of any Person other than the Administrative Agent shall be made directly to such Person and (B) all notices and other communications required or contemplated to be given or made to the Administrative Agent shall directly be given or made to each Lender and each Issuing Bank. Following the effectiveness of the Administrative Agent’s resignation from its capacity as such, the provisions of this Article and Section 9.03, as well as any exculpatory, reimbursement and indemnification provisions set forth in any other Loan Document, shall continue in effect for the benefit of such retiring Administrative Agent, its sub-agents and their respective Related Parties in respect of any actions taken or omitted to be taken by any of them while the retiring Administrative Agent was acting as Administrative Agent.

 

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SECTION 8.06 Acknowledgements of Lenders and Issuing Banks .

(a) Each Lender and each Issuing Bank represents and warrants that (i) the Loan Documents set forth the terms of a commercial lending facility, (ii) it is engaged in making, acquiring or holding commercial loans and in providing other facilities set forth herein as may be applicable to such Lender or Issuing Bank, in each case in the ordinary course of business, and not for the purpose of purchasing, acquiring or holding any other type of financial instrument (and each Lender and each Issuing Bank agrees not to assert a claim in contravention of the foregoing), (iii) it has, independently and without reliance upon the Administrative Agent, any Arranger, or any other Lender or any Issuing Bank, or any of the Related Parties of any of the foregoing, and based on such documents and information as it has deemed appropriate, made its own credit analysis and decision to enter into this Agreement as a Lender, and to make, acquire or hold Loans hereunder and (iv) it is sophisticated with respect to decisions to make, acquire and/or hold commercial loans and to provide other facilities set forth herein, as may be applicable to such Lender or such Issuing Bank, and either it, or the Person exercising discretion in making its decision to make, acquire and/or hold such commercial loans or to provide such other facilities, is experienced in making, acquiring or holding such commercial loans or providing such other facilities. Each Lender and each Issuing Bank also acknowledges that it will, independently and without reliance upon the Administrative Agent, any Arranger or any other Lender or any Issuing Bank, or any of the Related Parties of any of the foregoing, and based on such documents and information (which may contain material, non-public information within the meaning of the United States securities laws concerning the Borrower and its Affiliates) as it shall from time to time deem appropriate, continue to make its own decisions in taking or not taking action under or based upon this Agreement, any other Loan Document or any related agreement or any document furnished hereunder or thereunder.

(b) Each Lender, by delivering its signature page to this Agreement on the Closing Date, or delivering its signature page to an Assignment and Assumption or any other Loan Document pursuant to which it shall become a Lender hereunder, shall be deemed to have acknowledged receipt of, and consented to and approved, each Loan Document and each other document required to be delivered to, or be approved by or satisfactory to, the Administrative Agent or the Lenders on the Closing Date.

(c) (i) Each Lender hereby agrees that (x) if the Administrative Agent notifies such Lender that the Administrative Agent has determined in its sole discretion that any funds received by such Lender from the Administrative Agent or any of its Affiliates (whether as a payment, prepayment or repayment of principal, interest, fees or otherwise; individually and collectively, a “Payment”) were erroneously transmitted to such Lender (whether or not known to such Lender), and demands the return of such Payment (or a portion thereof), such Lender shall promptly, but in no event later than one Business Day thereafter, return to the Administrative Agent the amount of any such Payment (or portion thereof) as to which such a demand was made in same day funds, together with interest thereon in respect of each day from and including the date such Payment (or portion thereof) was received by such Lender to the date such amount is

 

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repaid to the Administrative Agent at the greater of the NYFRB Rate and a rate determined by the Administrative Agent in accordance with banking industry rules on interbank compensation from time to time in effect, and (y) to the extent permitted by applicable law, such Lender shall not assert, and hereby waives, as to the Administrative Agent, any claim, counterclaim, defense or right of set-off or recoupment with respect to any demand, claim or counterclaim by the Administrative Agent for the return of any Payments received, including without limitation any defense based on “discharge for value” or any similar doctrine. A notice of the Administrative Agent to any Lender under this Section 8.06(c) shall be conclusive, absent manifest error.

(ii) Each Lender hereby further agrees that if it receives a Payment from the Administrative Agent or any of its Affiliates (x) that is in a different amount than, or on a different date from, that specified in a notice of payment sent by the Administrative Agent (or any of its Affiliates) with respect to such Payment (a “Payment Notice”) or (y) that was not preceded or accompanied by a Payment Notice, it shall be on notice, in each such case, that an error has been made with respect to such Payment. Each Lender agrees that, in each such case, or if it otherwise becomes aware a Payment (or portion thereof) may have been sent in error, such Lender shall promptly notify the Administrative Agent of such occurrence and, upon demand from the Administrative Agent, it shall promptly, but in no event later than one Business Day thereafter, return to the Administrative Agent the amount of any such Payment (or portion thereof) as to which such a demand was made in same day funds, together with interest thereon in respect of each day from and including the date such Payment (or portion thereof) was received by such Lender to the date such amount is repaid to the Administrative Agent at the greater of the NYFRB Rate and a rate determined by the Administrative Agent in accordance with banking industry rules on interbank compensation from time to time in effect.

(iii) The Borrower and each other Loan Party hereby agrees that, to the extent such funds have not been sent by the Borrower or a Subsidiary of the Borrower (and not otherwise returned), (x) in the event an erroneous Payment (or portion thereof) are not recovered from any Lender that has received such Payment (or portion thereof) for any reason, the Administrative Agent shall be subrogated to all the rights of such Lender with respect to such amount and (y) an erroneous Payment shall not be deemed to pay, prepay, repay, discharge or otherwise satisfy any Obligations owed by the Borrower or any other Loan Party.

(iv) Each party’s obligations under this Section 8.06(c) shall survive the resignation or replacement of the Administrative Agent or any transfer of rights or obligations by, or the replacement of, a Lender, the termination of the Commitments or the repayment, satisfaction or discharge of all Obligations under any Loan Document.

(v) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein or in any other Loan Document, no Loan Party nor any of their respective Affiliates shall have any obligations or liabilities directly or indirectly arising out of this Section 8.06(c) in respect of any erroneous Payment (other than having consented to the assignment referenced in clause (iii) above).

 

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SECTION 8.07 Collateral Matters.

(a) Except with respect to the exercise of setoff rights in accordance with Section 9.08 or with respect to a Secured Party’s right to file a proof of claim in an insolvency proceeding, no Secured Party shall have any right individually to realize upon any of the Collateral or to enforce any Guarantee of the Obligations, it being understood and agreed that all powers, rights and remedies under the Loan Documents may be exercised solely by the Administrative Agent on behalf of the Secured Parties in accordance with the terms thereof.

(b) In furtherance of the foregoing and not in limitation thereof, no arrangements in respect of Cash Management Obligations and no obligations under Secured Hedge Agreements, will create (or be deemed to create) in favor of any Secured Party that is a party thereto any rights in connection with the management or release of any Collateral or of the obligations of any Loan Party under any Loan Document. By accepting the benefits of the Collateral, each Secured Party that is a party to any such arrangement in respect of any Cash Management Agreement or Secured Hedge Agreement, as applicable, shall be deemed to have appointed the Administrative Agent to serve as administrative agent and collateral agent under the Loan Documents and agreed to be bound by the Loan Documents as a Secured Party thereunder, subject to the limitations set forth in this paragraph.

(c) The Secured Parties irrevocably authorize the Administrative Agent, at its option and in its discretion, to subordinate any Lien on any property granted to or held by the Administrative Agent under any Loan Document to the holder of any Lien on such property that is permitted by Section 6.02(a). The Administrative Agent shall not be responsible for or have a duty to ascertain or inquire into any representation or warranty regarding the existence, value or collectability of the Collateral, the existence, priority or perfection of the Administrative Agent’s Lien thereon or any certificate prepared by any Loan Party in connection therewith, nor shall the Administrative Agent be responsible or liable to the Lenders or any other Secured Party for any failure to monitor or maintain any portion of the Collateral.

SECTION 8.08 Credit Bidding. The Secured Parties hereby irrevocably authorize the Administrative Agent, at the direction of the Required Lenders, to credit bid all or any portion of the Obligations (including by accepting some or all of the Collateral in satisfaction of some or all of the Obligations pursuant to a deed in lieu of foreclosure or otherwise) and in such manner purchase (either directly or through one or more acquisition vehicles) all or any portion of the Collateral (a) at any sale thereof conducted under the provisions of the Bankruptcy Code, including under Sections 363, 1123 or 1129 of the Bankruptcy Code, or any similar laws in any other jurisdictions to which a Loan Party is subject, or (b) at any other sale, foreclosure or acceptance of collateral in lieu of debt conducted by (or with the consent or at the direction of) the Administrative Agent (whether by judicial action or otherwise) in accordance with any applicable law. In connection with any such credit bid and purchase, the Obligations owed to the Secured Parties shall be entitled to be, and shall be, credit bid by the Administrative Agent at the direction of the Required Lenders on a ratable basis (with Obligations with respect to contingent or unliquidated claims receiving contingent interests in the acquired assets on a ratable basis that shall vest upon the liquidation of such claims in an amount proportional to the liquidated portion of the contingent claim amount used in allocating the contingent interests) for the asset or assets so purchased (or for the equity interests or debt instruments of the acquisition vehicle or vehicles that are issued in connection with such purchase). In connection with any such bid, (i) the

 

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Administrative Agent shall be authorized to form one or more acquisition vehicles and to assign any successful credit bid to such acquisition vehicle or vehicles, (ii) each of the Secured Parties’ ratable interests in the Obligations which were credit bid shall be deemed without any further action under this Agreement to be assigned to such vehicle or vehicles for the purpose of closing such sale, (iii) the Administrative Agent shall be authorized to adopt documents providing for the governance of the acquisition vehicle or vehicles (provided that any actions by the Administrative Agent with respect to such acquisition vehicle or vehicles, including any disposition of the assets or equity interests thereof, shall be governed, directly or indirectly, by, and the governing documents shall provide for, control by the vote of the Required Lenders or their permitted assignees under the terms of this Agreement or the governing documents of the applicable acquisition vehicle or vehicles, as the case may be, irrespective of the termination of this Agreement and without giving effect to the limitations on actions by the Required Lenders contained in Section 9.02 of this Agreement), (iv) the Administrative Agent on behalf of such acquisition vehicle or vehicles shall be authorized to issue to each of the Secured Parties, ratably on account of the relevant Obligations which were credit bid, interests, whether as equity, partnership interests, limited partnership interests or membership interests, in any such acquisition vehicle and/or debt instruments issued by such acquisition vehicle, all without the need for any Secured Party or acquisition vehicle to take any further action, and (v) to the extent that Obligations that are assigned to an acquisition vehicle are not used to acquire Collateral for any reason (as a result of another bid being higher or better, because the amount of Obligations assigned to the acquisition vehicle exceeds the amount of Obligations credit bid by the acquisition vehicle or otherwise), such Obligations shall automatically be reassigned to the Secured Parties pro rata with their original interest in such Obligations and the equity interests and/or debt instruments issued by any acquisition vehicle on account of such Obligations shall automatically be cancelled, without the need for any Secured Party or any acquisition vehicle to take any further action. Notwithstanding that the ratable portion of the Obligations of each Secured Party are deemed assigned to the acquisition vehicle or vehicles as set forth in clause (ii) above, each Secured Party shall execute such documents and provide such information regarding the Secured Party (and/or any designee of the Secured Party which will receive interests in or debt instruments issued by such acquisition vehicle) as the Administrative Agent may reasonably request in connection with the formation of any acquisition vehicle, the formulation or submission of any credit bid or the consummation of the transactions contemplated by such credit bid.

SECTION 8.09. Certain ERISA Matters.

(a) Each Lender (x) represents and warrants, as of the date such Person became a Lender party hereto, to, and (y) covenants, from the date such Person became a Lender party hereto to the date such Person ceases being a Lender party hereto, for the benefit of, the Administrative Agent, and the Arrangers and their respective Affiliates, and not, for the avoidance of doubt, to or for the benefit of the Borrower or any other Loan Party, that at least one of the following is and will be true:

(i) such Lender is not using “plan assets” (within the meaning of the Plan Asset Regulations) of one or more Plans in connection with the Loans, the Letters of Credit or the Commitments,

 

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(ii) the transaction exemption set forth in one or more PTEs, such as PTE 84-14 (a class exemption for certain transactions determined by independent qualified professional asset managers), PTE 95-60 (a class exemption for certain transactions involving insurance company general accounts), PTE 90-1 (a class exemption for certain transactions involving insurance company pooled separate accounts), PTE 91-38 (a class exemption for certain transactions involving bank collective investment funds) or PTE 96-23 (a class exemption for certain transactions determined by in-house asset managers), is applicable with respect to such Lender’s entrance into, participation in, administration of and performance of the Loans, the Letters of Credit, the Commitments and this Agreement,

(iii) (A) such Lender is an investment fund managed by a “Qualified Professional Asset Manager” (within the meaning of Part VI of PTE 84-14), (B) such Qualified Professional Asset Manager made the investment decision on behalf of such Lender to enter into, participate in, administer and perform the Loans, the Letters of Credit, the Commitments and this Agreement, (C) the entrance into, participation in, administration of and performance of the Loans, the Letters of Credit, the Commitments and this Agreement satisfies the requirements of sub-sections (b) through (g) of Part I of PTE 84-14 and (D) to the best knowledge of such Lender, the requirements of subsection (a) of Part I of PTE 84-14 are satisfied with respect to such Lender’s entrance into, participation in, administration of and performance of the Loans, the Letters of Credit, the Commitments and this Agreement, or

(iv) such other representation, warranty and covenant as may be agreed in writing between the Administrative Agent, in its sole discretion, and such Lender.

In addition, unless sub-clause (i) in the immediately preceding clause (a) is true with respect to a Lender or such Lender has provided another representation, warranty and covenant as provided in sub-clause (iv) in the immediately preceding clause (a), such Lender further (x) represents and warrants, as of the date such Person became a Lender party hereto, to, and (y) covenants, from the date such Person became a Lender party hereto to the date such Person ceases being a Lender party hereto, for the benefit of, the Administrative Agent, and the Arrangers and their respective Affiliates, and not, for the avoidance of doubt, to or for the benefit of the Borrower or any other Loan Party, that none of the Administrative Agent, or the Arrangers or any of their respective Affiliates is a fiduciary with respect to the Collateral or the assets of such Lender (including in connection with the reservation or exercise of any rights by the Administrative Agent under this Agreement, any Loan Document or any documents related to hereto or thereto).

(b) The Administrative Agent, and the Arrangers hereby inform the Lenders that each such Person is not undertaking to provide investment advice or to give advice in a fiduciary capacity, in connection with the transactions contemplated hereby, and that such Person has a financial interest in the transactions contemplated hereby in that such Person or an Affiliate thereof (i) may receive interest or other payments with respect to the Loans, the Letters of Credit, the Commitments, this Agreement and any other Loan Documents (ii) may recognize a gain if it extended the Loans, the Letters of Credit or the Commitments for an amount less than the amount being paid for an interest in the Loans, the Letters of Credit or the Commitments by such Lender or (iii) may receive fees or other payments in connection with the transactions contemplated hereby, the Loan Documents or otherwise, including structuring fees, commitment fees, arrangement fees, facility fees, upfront fees, underwriting fees, ticking fees, agency fees, administrative agent or collateral agent fees, utilization fees, minimum usage fees, letter of credit fees, fronting fees, deal-away or alternate transaction fees, amendment fees, processing fees, term out premiums, banker’s acceptance fees, breakage or other early termination fees or fees similar to the foregoing.

 

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ARTICLE IX

Miscellaneous

SECTION 9.01 Notices.

(a) Except in the case of notices and other communications expressly permitted to be given by telephone (and subject to clause (b) below), all notices and other communications provided for herein shall be in writing and shall be delivered by hand or overnight courier service, mailed by certified or registered mail or sent by telecopy, as follows:

(i) if to the Borrower, to Clearwater Analytics, LLC, 777 W. Main Street, Suite 900, Boise, ID 83702, Attention: Controller, Finance Department, Telecopy: *****, Telephone: (208) 433-1200,

(ii) if to the Administrative Agent, Revolver Agent or Swingline Lender, to

JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A.

500 Stanton Christiana Rd.

NCC5 / 1st Floor

Newark, DE 19713

Attention: Loan & Agency Services Group

Email: *****

Tel: 302-634-1928

Agency Withholding Tax Inquiries

Email: agency.tax.reporting@jpmorgan.com

Agency Compliance/Financials/Intralinks:

Email: *****

(iii) if to the Collateral Agent, to

JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A.

JPMorgan Chase & Co.

CIB DMO WLO

Mail code NY1-C413

4 CMC, Brooklyn, NY, 11245-0001

United States

Email: *****

 

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(iv) if to JPMorgan as an Issuing Bank, to

JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A.

10420 Highland Manor Dr. 4th Floor

Tampa, FL 33610

Attention: Standby LC Unit

Email: *****

Tel: 800-364-1969

Fax: 856-294-5267

With a copy to

JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A.

500 Stanton Christiana Rd.

NCC5 / 1st Floor

Newark, DE 19713

Attention: Loan & Agency Services Group

Email: *****

Tel: 302-634-1928

(v) if to any other Issuing Bank, to such address as such Issuing Bank may provide in writing to the Revolver Agent and the Borrower from time to time,

(vi) if to any other Lender, to it at its address (or telecopy number) set forth in its Administrative Questionnaire,

(vii) if to make any updates, modifications or supplements to the list of Disqualified Institutions, by e-mail to *****

(b) Notices and other communications to the Lenders hereunder may be delivered or furnished by electronic communications pursuant to procedures approved by the Applicable Agent; provided that the foregoing shall not apply to notices pursuant to Article II unless otherwise agreed by the Applicable Agent and the applicable Lender. The Applicable Agent or the Borrower may, in its discretion, agree to accept notices and other communications to it hereunder by electronic communications pursuant to procedures approved by it; provided that approval of such procedures may be limited to particular notices or communications. Unless the Applicable Agent otherwise prescribes, (i) notices and other communications sent to an e-mail address shall be deemed received upon the sender’s receipt of an acknowledgement from the intended recipient (such as by the “return receipt requested” function, as available, return e-mail or other written acknowledgement), and (ii) notices or communications posted to an Internet or intranet website shall be deemed received upon the deemed receipt by the intended recipient, at its e-mail address as described in the foregoing clause (i), of notification that such notice or communication is available and identifying the website address therefor; provided that, for both clauses (i) and (ii) above, if such notice, email or other communication is not sent during the normal business hours of the recipient, such notice or communication shall be deemed to have been sent at the opening of business on the next Business Day for the recipient.

(c) Any party hereto may change its address or telecopy number for notices and other communications hereunder by notice to the Administrative Agent and the Revolver Agent (and, in the case of the Administrative Agent or Revolver Agent, by written notice to the Borrower). All notices and other communications given to any party hereto in accordance with the provisions of this Agreement shall be deemed to have been given on the date of receipt.

 

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(d) Each Revolving Lender shall notify the Revolver Agent in writing of any changes in the address to which notices to such Revolving Lender should be directed, of addresses of its lending office, of payment instructions in respect of all payments to be made to it hereunder and of such other administrative information as the Revolver Agent shall reasonably request.

SECTION 9.02 Waivers; Amendments.

(a) No failure or delay by the Administrative Agent, the Revolver Agent, any Issuing Bank, the Collateral Agent, the Swingline Lender or any Lender in exercising any right or power hereunder or under any other Loan Document shall operate as a waiver thereof, nor shall any single or partial exercise of any such right or power, or any abandonment or discontinuance of steps to enforce such a right or power, preclude any other or further exercise thereof or the exercise of any other right or power. The rights and remedies of the Administrative Agent, the Revolver Agent, each Issuing Bank, the Collateral Agent, the Swingline Lender and the Lenders hereunder and under the other Loan Documents are cumulative and are not exclusive of any rights or remedies that they would otherwise have. No waiver of any provision of any Loan Document or consent to any departure by any Loan Party therefrom shall in any event be effective unless the same shall be permitted by paragraph (b) of this Section 9.02, and then such waiver or consent shall be effective only in the specific instance and for the purpose for which given. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, the making of a Loan or issuance of a Letter of Credit shall not be construed as a waiver of any Default, regardless of whether the Administrative Agent, the Revolver Agent, any Lender, the Collateral Agent, the Swingline Lender or any Issuing Bank may have had notice or knowledge of such Default at the time.

(b) Except as provided in Section 2.20 (other than Section 2.20(d)(i)) with respect to an Additional Credit Extension Amendment (or to give effect to any restatement of this Agreement, the substantive terms of which are otherwise permitted hereby), neither this Agreement nor any other Loan Document nor any provision hereof or thereof may be waived, amended or modified except, in the case of this Agreement, pursuant to an agreement or agreements in writing entered into by Holdings, the Borrower and the Required Lenders or, in the case of any other Loan Document, pursuant to an agreement or agreements in writing entered into by the Administrative Agent and the Loan Party or Loan Parties that are parties thereto, in each case with the consent of the Required Lenders; provided that no such agreement shall

(i) increase the Commitment of any Lender without the written consent of such Lender (it being understood that a waiver of any condition precedent set forth in Section 4.02 or of any Default or mandatory prepayment or mandatory reduction of any Commitments shall not constitute an increase of any Commitment of any Lender),

(ii) reduce the principal amount of any Loan or LC Disbursement or reduce the rate of interest thereon, or reduce any fees payable hereunder, without the written consent of each Lender directly and adversely affected thereby, it being understood that any change to the definition of “Secured Net Leverage Ratio”, “First Lien Net Leverage Ratio” or “Total Net Leverage Ratio” or in the component definitions thereof shall not constitute a reduction in any rate of interest; provided that, for the avoidance of doubt, only the consent of the Required Lenders shall be necessary to amend Section 2.13(c) or to waive any obligation of the Borrower to pay interest thereunder,

 

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(iii) postpone the maturity of any Loan, or any scheduled date of payment of the principal amount of any Loan, the required date of reimbursement of any LC Disbursement, or any date for the payment of any interest or fees payable hereunder, or reduce the amount of, waive or excuse any such payment, or postpone the scheduled date of expiration of any Commitment, without the written consent of each Lender directly and adversely affected thereby (it being understood that a waiver of any Default or mandatory prepayment or mandatory reduction of any Commitment shall not constitute a reduction, waiver, excuse or postponement),

(iv) change Section 2.18(b) or (c) in a manner that would alter the pro rata sharing of payments required thereby or change Section 2.18(f), in each case without the written consent of each Lender directly and adversely affected thereby,

(v) change any of the provisions of this Agreement or any other Loan Document in a manner that subordinates the Obligations in right of payment, or the priority of the Liens securing the Obligations, to any other Indebtedness (other than any Indebtedness permitted to be senior to the Obligations in accordance with the terms of this Agreement as of the Closing Date and any debtor-in-possession financings), unless the Administrative Agent and the Borrower offer a bona fide opportunity to all Lenders that are directly and adversely affected to participate on a pro rata basis in any priming indebtedness (including any fees payable in connection therewith) permitted to be issued as a result of such change,

(vi) change any of the provisions of this Section 9.02 or the percentage set forth in the definition of “Required Lenders”, “Required Revolving Lenders” or any other provision of any Loan Document specifying the number or percentage of Lenders (or Lenders of any Class) required to waive, amend or modify any rights thereunder or make any determination or grant any consent thereunder, without the written consent of each Lender directly and adversely affected thereby (or each Lender of such Class, as applicable),

(vii) release Holdings or any Subsidiary Loan Party from its Guarantee under the Collateral Agreement (except as provided in Section 9.15 or in the Collateral Agreement) or limit its liability in respect of such Guarantee, without the written consent of each Lender,

(viii) release all or substantially all the Collateral from the Liens of the Security Documents (except as provided in Section 9.15 or in the Collateral Agreement), without the written consent of each Lender,

(ix) change any provisions of any Loan Document in a manner that by its terms adversely affects the rights in respect of payments due to Lenders holding Loans of any Class differently than those holding Loans of any other Class, without the written consent of Lenders holding a majority in interest of the outstanding Loans and unused Commitments of each adversely affected Class, or

 

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(x) (i) the definition of Required Term Lenders or this Section 9.02(b)(x) or (ii) increase the amount of Revolving Commitments from those in effect on the Closing Date, in each case, without the written consent of the Required Term Lenders (or by the Administrative Agent with the consent of Required Term Lenders);

provided, that (A) no such agreement shall amend, modify or otherwise affect the rights or duties of the Administrative Agent, any Issuing Bank or the Swingline Lender without the prior written consent of the Administrative Agent, any Issuing Bank or the Swingline Lender, as applicable, and (B) any waiver, amendment or modification of this Agreement that by its terms affects the rights or duties under this Agreement of a particular Class of Lenders (but not any other Lenders) may be effected by an agreement or agreements in writing entered into by Holdings, the Borrower and requisite percentage in interest of the affected Class of Lenders that would be required to consent thereto under this Section 9.02(b) if such Class of Lenders were the only Class of Lenders hereunder at the time. As it relates to rights of any Issuing Bank, (a) the definition of “Letter of Credit Sublimit” may be amended to increase the amount thereof to an amount equal to no more than 50% of the aggregate principal amount of the Revolving Commitments (as in effect as of the date thereof) with only the written consent of any Issuing Bank, the Revolver Agent and the Borrower and (b) this Agreement may be amended to adjust the mechanics related to the issuance of Letters of Credit, including mechanical changes relating to the existence of multiple Issuing Banks, with only the written consent of the applicable Issuing Bank and the Borrower, so long as the obligations of the Revolving Lenders, if any, who have not executed such amendment and the other Issuing Banks, if any, who have not executed such amendment, are not adversely affected thereby. No Lender consent is required to effect an Additional Credit Extension Amendment (except (i) as expressly provided in Sections 2.20 or 2.21, as applicable or (ii) that the provisions of Section 2.20(d)(i) may not be amended or waived without the consent of the Required Lenders). In connection with any proposed amendment, modification, waiver or termination (a “Proposed Change”) requiring the consent of all Lenders or all adversely affected Lenders, if the consent of the Required Lenders to such Proposed Change is obtained, but the consent to such Proposed Change of other Lenders whose consent is required is not obtained (any such Lender whose consent is not obtained as described in this Section 9.02(b) being referred to as a “Non-Consenting Lender”), then, at the Borrower’s request, any Lender assignee that is reasonably acceptable to the Applicable Agent shall have the right to purchase from such Non-Consenting Lender, and such Non-Consenting Lender agrees that it shall, upon the Borrower’s request, sell and assign to such Lender assignee, at no expense to such Non-Consenting Lender, all the Commitments and Loans of such Non-Consenting Lender for an amount equal to the principal balance of all Loans (and funded participations in Swingline Loans and unreimbursed LC Disbursements) held by such Non-Consenting Lender and all accrued interest and fees with respect thereto through the date of sale (including amounts under Sections 2.12, 2.15, 2.16 and 2.17), such purchase and sale to be consummated pursuant to an executed Assignment and Assumption in accordance with Section 9.04(b) (which Assignment and Assumption need not be signed by such Non-Consenting Lender); provided, that, if any such Non-Consenting Lender does not execute and deliver to the Applicable Agent a duly executed Assignment and Assumption reflecting such replacement within two (2) Business Days of the date on which the Lender assignee executes and delivers such Assignment and Assumption to such Non-Consenting Lender, then such Non-Consenting Lender shall be deemed to have executed and delivered such Assignment and Assumption without any action on the part of the Non-Consenting Lender.

 

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(c) Notwithstanding the provisions of clause (b), this Agreement may be amended (or amended and restated) with the written consent of the Required Lenders, the Administrative Agent and the Borrower (i) to add one or more additional credit facilities to this Agreement and to permit the extensions of credit from time to time thereunder and the accrued interest and fees in respect thereof to share ratably in the benefits of this Agreement and the other Loan Documents with the Initial Term Loans and the Revolving Loans and the accrued interest and fees in respect thereof, and (ii) to include appropriately the Lenders holding such credit facilities in any determination of the Required Lenders. In addition, this Agreement may be amended with the written consent of the Administrative Agent, the Borrower and the Lenders providing the relevant Replacement Term Loans to permit the refinancing of all outstanding Term Loans of a Class with a replacement term loan tranche hereunder (the “Replacement Term Loans”); provided that (i) the aggregate principal amount of such Replacement Term Loans shall not exceed the aggregate principal amount of such refinanced Term Loans, (ii) the Applicable Rate for such Replacement Term Loans shall not be higher than the Applicable Rate for such refinanced Term Loans, (iii) the Weighted Average Life to Maturity of such Replacement Term Loans shall not be shorter than the Weighted Average Life to Maturity of such refinanced Term Loans at the time of such refinancing (except to the extent of nominal amortization for periods where amortization has been eliminated as a result of prepayment of the refinanced Term Loans) and (iv) all other terms applicable to such Replacement Term Loans shall be substantially identical to, or less favorable to the Lenders providing such Replacement Term Loans than, those applicable to such refinanced Term Loans, except to the extent necessary to provide for covenants and other terms applicable to any period after the Latest Maturity Date in effect immediately prior to such refinancing.

(d) Notwithstanding anything in this Section 9.02 to the contrary, (a) technical and conforming modifications to the Loan Documents may be made with the consent of the Borrower and the Administrative Agent to the extent necessary (i) to integrate any Incremental Term Loans, any Incremental Revolving Commitments, any Extended Term Loans or any Extended Revolving Commitments or (ii) to cure any ambiguity, omission, defect or inconsistency and (b) without the consent of any Lender or any Issuing Bank, the Loan Parties and the Administrative Agent or any collateral agent may (in their respective sole discretion, or shall, to the extent required by any Loan Document) enter into any (x) amendment, modification or waiver of any Loan Document, or enter into any new agreement or instrument, to effect the granting, perfection, protection, expansion or enhancement of any security interest in any Collateral or additional property to become Collateral for the benefit of the Secured Parties or as required by local law to give effect to, or protect any security interest for benefit of the Secured Parties, in any property or so that the security interests therein comply with applicable law or this Agreement or in each case to otherwise enhance the rights or benefits of any Lender under any Loan Document or (y) any Junior Lien Intercreditor Agreement.

(e) Notwithstanding anything in this Section 9.02 to the contrary, if the Administrative Agent and the Borrower shall have jointly identified an obvious error, mistake, ambiguity, incorrect cross-reference or any error or omission of a technical or immaterial nature, in each case, in any provision of this Agreement or any other Loan Document (including, for the avoidance of doubt, any exhibit, schedule or other attachment to any Loan Document), then the Administrative Agent (acting in its sole discretion) and the Borrower or any other relevant Loan Party shall be permitted to amend such provision and such amendment shall become effective without any further action or consent of any other party to any Loan Document. Notification of such amendment shall be made by the Administrative Agent to the Lenders promptly upon such amendment becoming effective.

 

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SECTION 9.03 Expenses; Limitation of Liability; Indemnity; Damage Waiver.

(a) The Borrower shall pay or reimburse (i) all reasonable and documented out-of-pocket expenses incurred by the Administrative Agent, the Collateral Agent and the Arrangers, including the reasonable fees, charges and disbursements of counsel for the Agents (within 30 days of a written demand therefor (or on or prior to the Closing Date with respect to expenses required to be paid pursuant to Section 4.01(f)), together with backup documentation supporting such reimbursement request), in connection the preparation, execution, delivery and administration of the Loan Documents or any amendments, modifications or waivers of the provisions thereof (but, limited, in the case of legal fees and expenses, to the reasonable and documented fees, disbursements and other charges of one counsel to the Administrative Agent, and the Arrangers, and, if necessary, of one local counsel in any relevant jurisdiction) and (ii) all reasonable and documented out-of-pocket expenses incurred by the Administrative Agent and the Lenders (within 30 days of a written demand therefor, together with backup documentation supporting such reimbursement request) incurred in connection with the enforcement of any rights or remedies under this Agreement or the other Loan Documents (but, limited, in the case of legal fees and expenses, to the reasonable and documented fees, disbursements and other charges of one counsel to the Administrative Agent, the Revolver Agent and the Lenders taken as a whole, and, if necessary, of one local counsel to the Administrative Agent, the Revolver Agent and the Lenders taken as a whole in any relevant jurisdiction and one additional counsel in each relevant jurisdiction for each group of similarly situated parties in the event of a conflict of interest). If any Loan Party fails to pay when due any costs, expenses or other amounts payable by it hereunder or under any Loan Document, such amount may be paid on behalf of such Loan Party by the Administrative Agent in its sole discretion. For the avoidance of doubt, this Section 9.03(a) shall not apply to Taxes, except any Taxes that represent costs and expenses arising from any non-Tax claim. For the avoidance of doubt, the term “Lender” shall, for purposes of this Section 9.03(a) include any Issuing Bank and any Swingline Lender.

(b) To the extent permitted by applicable law (i) no Loan Party shall assert, and each Loan Party hereby waives, any claim against any Agent, any Arranger, any Issuing Bank and any Lender, and any Related Party of any of the foregoing Persons (each such Person being called a “Lender-Related Person”) for any Liabilities arising from the use by others of information or other materials (including, without limitation, any personal data) obtained through telecommunications, electronic or other information transmission systems (including the Internet), other than with respect to any such Liability resulting from the gross negligence, bad faith or willful misconduct of any such Lender Related Person, as determined by a final non-appealable judgment of a court of competent jurisdiction, and (ii) no party hereto shall assert, and each such party hereby waives, any Liabilities against any other party hereto, on any theory of liability, for special, indirect, consequential or punitive damages (as opposed to direct or actual damages) arising out of, in connection with, or as a result of, this Agreement, any other Loan Document, or any agreement or instrument contemplated hereby or thereby, the Transactions, any Loan or Letter of Credit or the use of the proceeds thereof; provided that, nothing in this Section 9.03(b) shall relieve the Borrower and each Loan Party of any obligation it may have to indemnify an Indemnitee, as provided in Section 9.03(c), against any special, indirect, consequential or punitive damages asserted against such Indemnitee by a third party.

 

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(c) The Borrower shall indemnify the Administrative Agent, the Revolver Agent, the Collateral Agent, the Arrangers, the Issuing Banks and each Lender, and each Related Party of any of the foregoing Persons (each such Person being called an “Indemnitee”), and hold each Indemnitee harmless, from any and all Liabilities and related expenses, including the fees, charges and disbursements of any outside counsel for any Indemnitee (but, limited, in the case of legal fees and expenses, to the reasonable and documented fees, disbursements and other charges of one counsel to the Indemnitees taken as a whole, and, if necessary, of one local counsel to the Indemnitees taken as a whole in any relevant jurisdiction and one additional counsel in each relevant jurisdiction for each group of similarly situated parties in the event of a conflict) incurred in connection with, or as a result of (i) the execution or delivery of any Loan Document or any other agreement or instrument contemplated hereby, the performance by the parties to the Loan Documents of their respective obligations thereunder or the consummation of the Transactions, or any other transactions contemplated hereby, (ii) any Loan or Letter of Credit or the use of the proceeds therefrom (including any refusal by any Issuing Bank to honor a demand for payment under a Letter of Credit if the documents presented in connection with such demand do not strictly comply with the terms of such Letter of Credit), (iii) any actual or alleged presence or Release or threat of Release of Hazardous Materials on, at, under or from any property currently or formerly owned, leased or operated by the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries, or any actual or alleged Environmental Liability related in any way to the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries or their respective properties or operations, or (iv) any actual or prospective claim, litigation, investigation or proceeding relating to any of the foregoing, whether or not such Proceeding is brought by the Borrower or any other Loan Party or its or their respective equity holders, Affiliates, creditors or any other third Person and whether based on contract, tort or any other theory and regardless of whether any Indemnitee is a party thereto; provided that such indemnity shall not, as to any Indemnitee, be available to the extent that such Liabilities or related expenses resulted from (x) the gross negligence, bad faith or willful misconduct of such Indemnitee or of any of its Related Parties, as determined by a final non-appealable judgment of a court of competent jurisdiction, (y) a material breach of any obligations under any Loan Document by such Indemnitee or of any of its Related Parties, as determined by a final non-appealable judgment of a court of competent jurisdiction or (z) any dispute solely among Indemnitees other than any claims against an Indemnitee in its capacity or in fulfilling its role as an administrative agent or arranger or any similar role under this Agreement and other than any claims arising out of any act or omission of the Borrower or any of its Affiliates (in the case of any such act or omission, as determined in a final and non-appealable judgment of a court of competent jurisdiction). All amounts due under this Section 9.03(c) shall be paid within 30 days after written demand therefor (together with backup documentation supporting such reimbursement request); provided that, that such Indemnitee shall promptly refund and return such amounts to the extent that there is a final non-appealable judicial determination by a court of competent jurisdiction that such Indemnitee was not entitled to indemnification rights with respect to such payment pursuant to the express terms of this Section 9.03(c). This Section 9.03(c) shall not apply with respect to Taxes other than any Taxes that represent losses, claims, damages, etc. arising from any non-Tax claim. Payments under this Section shall be made by the Borrower to the Administrative Agent for the benefit of the relevant Indemnitee. For the avoidance of doubt, the term “Lender” shall, for purposes of this Section 9.03(c) include any Issuing Bank and any Swingline Lender.

 

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(d) Each Lender severally agrees to pay any amount required to be paid by the Borrower under paragraphs (a), (b) or (c) of this Section 9.03 to the Administrative Agent, each Issuing Bank and each Swingline Lender, and each Related Party of any of the foregoing Persons (each, an “Agent-Related Person”) (to the extent not reimbursed by the Borrower and without limiting the obligation of the Borrower to do so), ratably according to their respective Applicable Percentage in effect on the date on which such payment is sought under this Section (or, if such payment is sought after the date upon which the Commitments shall have terminated and the Loans shall have been paid in full, ratably in accordance with such Applicable Percentage immediately prior to such date), and agrees to indemnify and hold each Agent-Related Person harmless from and against any and all Liabilities and related expenses, including the fees, charges and disbursements of any kind whatsoever that may at any time (whether before or after the payment of the Loans) be imposed on, incurred by or asserted against such Agent-Related Person in any way relating to or arising out of the Commitments, this Agreement, any of the other Loan Documents or any documents contemplated by or referred to herein or therein or the transactions contemplated hereby or thereby or any action taken or omitted by such Agent-Related Person under or in connection with any of the foregoing; provided that the unreimbursed expense or Liability or related expense, as the case may be, was incurred by or asserted against such Agent-Related Person in its capacity as such; provided further that no Lender shall be liable for the payment of any portion of such Liabilities, costs, expenses or disbursements that are found by a final and nonappealable decision of a court of competent jurisdiction to have resulted primarily from such Agent-Related Party’s gross negligence or willful misconduct. The agreements in this Section shall survive the termination of this Agreement and the payment of the Loans and all other amounts payable hereunder.

(e) All amounts due under this Section 9.03 shall be payable promptly after written demand therefor.

SECTION 9.04 Successors and Assigns.

(a) The provisions of this Agreement shall be binding upon and inure to the benefit of the parties hereto and their respective successors and assigns permitted hereby (including any Affiliate of any Issuing Bank that issues any Letter of Credit), except that (i) the Borrower may not assign or otherwise transfer any of its rights or obligations hereunder without the prior written consent of each Lender (except pursuant to Section 6.03(a)(i)) (and any attempted assignment or transfer by the Borrower without such consent shall be null and void) and (ii) no Lender may assign or otherwise transfer its rights or obligations hereunder except in accordance with this Section 9.04. Nothing in this Agreement, express or implied, shall be construed to confer upon any Person (other than the parties hereto, their respective successors and assigns permitted hereby (including any Affiliate of any Issuing Bank that issues any Letter of Credit), Participants (to the extent provided in paragraph (c) of this Section 9.04) and, to the extent expressly contemplated hereby, the Related Parties of each of the Administrative Agent, the Revolver Agent, the Issuing Banks and the Lenders) any legal or equitable right, remedy or claim under or by reason of this Agreement.

 

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(b) (i) Subject to the limitations set forth in paragraph (a) above and the conditions set forth in paragraph (b)(ii) below, any Lender may assign to one or more assignees all or a portion of its rights and obligations under this Agreement (including all or a portion of its Commitment and the Loans at the time owing to it) with the prior written consent (such consent not to be unreasonably withheld, conditioned or delayed) of:

(A) the Borrower; provided that the Borrower shall be deemed to have consented to an assignment unless it shall have objected thereto by written notice to the Applicable Agent within 10 Business Days after having received notice thereof; provided further that no consent of the Borrower shall be required for an assignment to a Lender, an Affiliate of a Lender, an Approved Fund or, if a Specified Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, any other assignee other than a Disqualified Institution,

(B) the Applicable Agent; provided that no consent of the Administrative Agent shall be required for an assignment of all or any portion of a Term Loan to a Lender, an Affiliate of a Lender or an Approved Fund, provided further that no consent of the Revolver Agent shall be required for an assignment of all or any portion of a Revolving Loan or Revolving Commitment to a Lender, and

(C) the Issuing Banks; provided that no consent of any Issuing Bank shall be required for an assignment of all or any portion of a Term Loan.

(ii) Assignments shall be subject to the following conditions:

(A) except in the case of an assignment to a Lender or an Affiliate of a Lender or an assignment of the entire remaining amount of the assigning Lender’s Commitment or Loans of any Class, the amount of the Commitment or Loans of the assigning Lender subject to each such assignment (determined as of the date the Assignment and Assumption with respect to such assignment is delivered to the Applicable Agent) shall not be less than an amount of $1,000,000 (or, in each case, if less, all of such Lender’s Commitment or Loans of the applicable Class) unless each of the Borrower and the Administrative Agent, and, in the case of any assignment of a Revolving Loan, Letter of Credit or Revolving Commitment, the Revolver Agent, otherwise consent; provided that such assignments shall be aggregated in respect of each Lender and its Affiliates or Approved Funds, if any,

(B) each partial assignment shall be made as an assignment of a proportionate part of all the assigning Lender’s rights and obligations under this Agreement; provided that this clause shall not be construed to prohibit assignment of a proportionate part of all the assigning Lender’s rights and obligations in respect of one Class of Commitments or Loans,

(C) the parties to each assignment shall execute and deliver to the Applicable Agent (x) an Assignment and Assumption or (y) to the extent applicable, an agreement incorporating an Assignment and Assumption by reference pursuant to an Approved Electronic Platform as to which the Administrative Agent and the parties to the Assignment and Assumption are participants, together with a processing and recordation fee of $3,500,

 

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(D) the assignee, if it shall not be a Lender, shall deliver to the Administrative Agent an Administrative Questionnaire,

(E) no assignment may be made to (i) a Disqualified Institution without the prior written consent of the Borrower, (ii) a natural person or (iii) except as permitted by Section 9.04(d), the Borrower or any of its Affiliates, and

(F) any assignment of Term Loans or Commitments of Term Loans shall specify whether such Term Loans or Commitments, as applicable, constitute Initial Term Loans, Incremental Term Loans or Commitments with respect to any of the foregoing Classes of Term Loans and, if such Term Loans or Commitments constitute Incremental Term Loans or Incremental Term Loan Commitments, the date of initial Borrowing of such Incremental Term Loans or the effective date of such Incremental Term Loan Commitments, as applicable.

Notwithstanding the foregoing or anything to the contrary set forth herein, any assignment of any Loans to any Affiliated Lender shall also be subject to the requirements of Section 9.04(d).

For purposes of this Section 9.04(b):

Approved Fund” means (a) a CLO and (b) with respect to any Lender that is a fund which invests in bank loans and similar extensions of credit, any other fund that invests in bank loans and similar extensions of credit and is managed or advised by the same investment advisor as such Lender or by an Affiliate of such investment advisor.

CLO” means any entity (whether a corporation, partnership, trust or otherwise) that is engaged in making, purchasing, holding or otherwise investing in bank loans and similar extensions of credit in the ordinary course and is administered or managed by a Lender or an Affiliate of such Lender.

(iii) Subject to acceptance and recording thereof pursuant to paragraph (b)(iv) of this Section 9.04, from and after the effective date specified in each Assignment and Assumption the assignee thereunder shall be a party hereto and, to the extent of the interest assigned by such Assignment and Assumption, have the rights and obligations of a Lender under this Agreement, and the assigning Lender thereunder shall, to the extent of the interest assigned by such Assignment and Assumption, be released from its obligations under this Agreement (and, in the case of an Assignment and Assumption covering all the assigning Lender’s rights and obligations under this Agreement, such Lender shall cease to be a party hereto but shall continue to be entitled to the benefits of Sections 2.15, 2.16, 2.17 and 9.03). Any assignment or transfer by a Lender of rights or obligations under this Agreement that does not comply with this Section 9.04 shall be treated for purposes of this Agreement as a sale by such Lender of a participation in such rights and obligations in accordance with paragraph (c) of this Section 9.04.

 

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(iv) Each of the Administrative Agent and the Revolver Agent, acting solely for this purpose as an agent of the Borrower, shall maintain at one of its offices a copy of each Assignment and Assumption delivered to it and a register for the recordation of the names and addresses of the Lenders, and the Commitment of, and principal amount and stated interest of the Loans and LC Disbursements owing to, each Lender pursuant to the terms hereof from time to time (a “Register”). The entries in the applicable Register shall be conclusive absent manifest error, and the Borrower, the Administrative Agent, the Revolver Agent, the Issuing Banks and the Lenders shall treat each Person whose name is recorded in the applicable Register pursuant to the terms hereof as a Lender for all purposes of the Loan Documents, notwithstanding notice to the contrary. Each Register shall be available for inspection by the Borrower, and solely with respect to their respective interests by the Issuing Banks and any Lender, at any reasonable time and from time to time upon reasonable prior notice.

(v) Upon its receipt of (x) a duly completed Assignment and Assumption executed by an assigning Lender and an assignee or (y) to the extent applicable, an agreement incorporating an Assignment and Assumption by reference pursuant to an Approved Electronic Platform as to which the Administrative Agent and the parties to the Assignment and Assumption are participants, the assignee’s completed Administrative Questionnaire (unless the assignee shall already be a Lender hereunder), the processing and recordation fee referred to in paragraph (b) of this Section 9.04 and any written consent to such assignment required by paragraph (b) of this Section 9.04, the Applicable Agent shall accept such Assignment and Assumption and record the information contained therein in the Register; provided that if either the assigning Lender or the assignee shall have failed to make any payment required to be made by it pursuant to Sections 2.05(d), 2.06(d) or (e), 2.07(b), 2.18(d) or 9.03(c), the Administrative Agent shall have no obligation to accept such Assignment and Assumption and record the information therein in the Register unless and until such payment shall have been made in full, together with all accrued interest thereon. No assignment shall be effective for purposes of this Agreement unless it has been recorded in the Register as provided in this paragraph.

(c) Any Lender may, without the consent of or notice to the Borrower, the Administrative Agent, the Revolver Agent, the Issuing Banks or the Swingline Lender, sell participations to one or more banks or other entities (a “Participant”) in all or a portion of such Lender’s rights and obligations under this Agreement (including all or a portion of its Commitment and the Loans owing to it); provided that (A) such Lender’s obligations under this Agreement shall remain unchanged, (B) such Lender shall remain solely responsible to the other parties hereto for the performance of such obligations and (C) the Borrower, the Administrative Agent, the Revolver Agent, the Issuing Banks and the other Lenders shall continue to deal solely and directly with such Lender in connection with such Lender’s rights and obligations under this Agreement. Any agreement or instrument pursuant to which a Lender sells such a participation shall provide that such Lender shall retain the sole right to enforce this Agreement and to approve any amendment, modification or waiver of any provision of this Agreement; provided that such agreement or instrument may provide that such Lender will not, without the consent of the Participant, agree to any amendment, modification or waiver described in the first proviso to Section 9.02(b) that affects such Participant.

 

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(i) Each Lender that sells a participation shall, acting solely for this purpose as a non-fiduciary agent of the Borrower, maintain a register on which it enters the name and address of each Participant and the principal amounts (and related interest amounts) of each Participant’s interest in the Loans or other obligations under the Loan Documents (the “Participant Register”); provided that no Lender shall have any obligation to disclose all or any portion of the Participant Register to any Person (including the identity of any Participant or any information relating to a Participant’s interest in any Commitments, Loans or its other obligations under this Agreement) except to the extent that the relevant parties, acting reasonably and in good faith, determine that such disclosure is necessary to establish that such Commitment, Loan or other obligation is in registered form under Section 5f.103-1(c) of the United States Treasury Regulations. The entries in the Participant Register shall be conclusive absent manifest error, and the Lender maintaining such Participant Register shall treat each person whose name is recorded in the Participant Register as the owner of the participation in question for all purposes of this Agreement notwithstanding any notice to the contrary. For the avoidance of doubt, the Administrative Agent (in its capacity as Administrative Agent) shall have no responsibility for maintaining a Participant Register.

(ii) The Borrower agrees that each Participant shall be entitled to the benefits of Sections 2.15, 2.16 and 2.17 (subject to the requirements and limitations of such Sections, provided that any forms required to be provided by any Participant pursuant to Section 2.17(e) shall be provided solely to the applicable Lender) to the same extent as if it were a Lender and had acquired its interest by assignment pursuant to paragraph (b) of this Section 9.04; provided, further that a Participant shall not be entitled to receive any greater payment under Section 2.15 or 2.17 than the applicable Lender would have been entitled to receive with respect to the participation sold to such Participant. To the extent permitted by law, each Participant also shall be entitled to the benefits of Section 9.08 as though it were a Lender; provided such Participant agrees to be subject to Section 2.17(e) and Section 2.18(c) as though it were a Lender.

(iii) Any Lender may at any time pledge, assign or grant a security interest in all or any portion of its rights under this Agreement to secure obligations of such Lender, including any pledge, assignment or grant to secure obligations to a Federal Reserve Bank, and this Section 9.04 shall not apply to any such pledge, assignment or grant of a security interest; provided that no such pledge, assignment or grant of a security interest shall release a Lender from any of its obligations hereunder or substitute any such pledge or assignee for such Lender as a party hereto.

(iv) Notwithstanding any other provision of this Agreement, no Lender will assign its rights and obligations under this Agreement, or sell participations in its rights and/or obligations under this Agreement, to any Person who is (i) a Disqualified Institution (with respect to participations to the extent the identity of such Disqualified Institution has been made available in writing to all Lenders), (ii) a natural person, (iii) a Person listed on the Specially Designated Nationals and Blocked Persons List maintained by OFAC and/or on any other similar list maintained by OFAC pursuant to any authorizing statute, executive order or regulation, (iv) a Person either (A) included within the term “designated national” as defined in the Cuban Assets Control Regulations, 31 C.F.R. Part 515 or (B) designated under Section 1(a), 1(b), 1(c) or 1(d) of Executive Order No. 13224, 66 Fed. Reg. 49079 (published September 25, 2001) or similarly designated under any related enabling legislation or any other similar executive orders or (v) the Borrower or any of its Affiliates.

 

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(d) (i) Notwithstanding anything else to the contrary contained in this Agreement, any Lender may assign all or a portion of its Term Loans to a Person who is or will become, after such assignment, an Affiliated Lender in accordance with Section 9.04(b) and this Section 9.04(d); provided that:

(A) the assigning Lender and Non-Debt Fund Affiliate purchasing such Lender’s Term Loans, as applicable, shall execute and deliver to the Administrative Agent an assignment agreement substantially in the form of Exhibit J hereto (an “Affiliated Lender Assignment and Assumption”) in lieu of an Assignment and Assumption;

(B) for the avoidance of doubt, Lenders shall not be permitted to assign Revolving Commitments, Revolving Loans, Extended Revolving Commitments, Incremental Revolving Commitments, Incremental Revolving Loans or Refinancing Revolving Commitments to any Affiliated Lender;

(C) no Non-Debt Fund Affiliate shall be permitted to hold Term Loans pursuant to this Section 9.04(d), if (i) Non-Debt Fund Affiliates in the aggregate would own in excess of 20% of the Term Loans of any Class then outstanding or (ii) there would be more than two (2) Non-Debt Fund Affiliates holding Term Loans of any Class then outstanding; and

(D) any purchases by a Non-Debt Fund Affiliate made through “dutch auctions” shall require that such Person (i) make a customary representation to all assigning Lenders that it does not possess material non-public information (or material information of the type that would not be public if the Borrower or any parent was a publicly reporting company) with respect to the Borrower and its Subsidiaries that either (A) has not been disclosed to the Lenders generally (other than Lenders that have elected not to receive such information) or (B) if not disclosed to the Lenders, could reasonably be expected to have a material effect on, or otherwise be material to (a) a Lender’s decision to participate in any such “dutch auction” or (b) the market price of the Loans and (ii) clearly identify itself as a Non-Debt Fund Affiliate in any assignment and assumption agreement executed in connection with such purchases; provided that if Borrower is unwilling, in its sole discretion, to make the representations set forth in sub-clause (i) above, the assigning Lender shall deliver a customary “big boy” letter to the Administrative Agent.

(ii) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Agreement, no Non-Debt Fund Affiliate shall have any right to (A) attend (including by telephone) any meeting or discussions (or portion thereof) among the Administrative Agent, the Revolver Agent or any Lender to which representatives of the Loan Parties are not invited, (B) receive any information or material prepared by Administrative Agent, the Revolver Agent or any Lender or any communication by or among the Administrative Agent, the Revolver Agent and/or one or more Lenders, except to the extent such information or materials have been made available to any Loan Party or its representatives (and in any case, other than the right to receive notices of prepayments and other administrative notices in respect of its Loans required to be delivered to Lenders pursuant to Article II of this Agreement), or (C) make or bring (or participate in, other than as a passive participant in or recipient of its pro rata benefits of) any claim, in its capacity as a Lender, against the Administrative Agent, the Revolver Agent, the Collateral Agent or any other Lender with respect to any duties or obligations or alleged duties or obligations of such Agent or any other such Lender under the Loan Documents.

 

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(iii) By its acquisition of Term Loans, a Non-Debt Fund Affiliate shall be deemed to have acknowledged and agreed that if a case under Title 11 of the United States Code is commenced against any Loan Party, such Loan Party shall provide (and each Non-Debt Fund Affiliate hereby agrees) that (A) such Non-Debt Fund Affiliate (in its capacity as such) shall not take any step or action in such case to object to, impede, or delay the exercise of any right or the taking of any action by Administrative Agent (or the taking of any action by a third party that is supported by Administrative Agent) in relation to such Non-Debt Fund Affiliates’ claim with respect to its Loans (including, without limitation, objecting to any debtor in possession financing, use of cash collateral, grant of adequate protection, sale or disposition, compromise, or plan of reorganization) so long as such Non-Debt Fund Affiliate is treated in connection with such exercise or action on the same or better terms as the other Lenders, (B) the vote of any Non-Debt Fund Affiliate (in its capacity as a Lender) with respect to any plan of reorganization of such Loan Party shall not be counted except that such Non-Debt Fund Affiliate’s vote (in its capacity as a Lender) may be counted to the extent any such plan of reorganization proposes to treat the Obligations held by such Non-Debt Fund Affiliate in a manner that is less favorable to such Non-Debt Fund Affiliate than the proposed treatment of similar Obligations held by Lenders that are not Affiliates of the Borrower; each Non-Debt Fund Affiliate hereby irrevocably appoints the Administrative Agent (such appointment being coupled with an interest) as such Non-Debt Fund Affiliate’s attorney-in-fact, with full authority in the place and stead of such Non-Debt Fund Affiliate and in the name of such Non-Debt Fund Affiliate (solely in respect of Loans and participations therein and not in respect of any other claim or status such Non-Debt Fund Affiliate may otherwise have) from time to time in the Administrative Agent’s discretion to take any action and to execute any instrument that the Administrative Agent may deem reasonably necessary to carry out the provisions of this clause (iii) and this Agreement. For the avoidance of doubt, the Lenders and each Non-Debt Fund Affiliate agree and acknowledge that the provisions set forth in this clause (iii) constitute a “subordination agreement” as such term is contemplated by, and utilized in, Section 510(a) of the Federal Bankruptcy Reform Act of 1978 (the “Bankruptcy Code”), and, as such, would be enforceable for all purposes in any case where a Loan Party has filed for protection under the Bankruptcy Code of the United States.

(e) Notwithstanding anything in Section 9.02 or the definition of “Required Lenders” to the contrary, for purposes of determining whether the Required Lenders or any other requisite Class vote required by this Agreement have (i) consented (or not consented) to any amendment, modification, waiver, consent or other action with respect to any of the terms of any Loan Document or any departure by any Loan Party therefrom, (ii) otherwise acted on any matter related to any Loan Document, or (iii) directed or required the Administrative Agent, Revolver Agent, Collateral Agent or any Lender to undertake any action (or refrain from taking any action) with respect to or under any Loan Document, (A) all Term Loans held by any Non-Debt Fund Affiliate shall be deemed to be not outstanding for all purposes of calculating whether the Required Lenders (or requisite vote of any Class of Lenders) have taken any actions and (B) the aggregate amount of Term Loans held by Debt Fund Affiliates will be excluded to the extent in

 

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excess of 49% of the amount required to constitute “Required Lenders”; provided that, (i) the commitment of any Non-Debt Fund Affiliate shall not be increased, (ii) the due date for payments of interest, fees and scheduled payments of principal owed to any Non-Debt Fund Affiliate shall not be extended, (iii) the amounts owing to any Non-Debt Fund Affiliate will not be reduced and (iv) any amendment that results in a disproportionate and adverse effect on a Non-Debt Fund Affiliate, in relation to all non-Affiliated Lenders or otherwise require the consent of each Lender or each affected Lender without the consent of such Non-Debt Fund Affiliate, in each instance in subclauses (i) to (iv) above, without the consent of such Non-Debt Fund Affiliate.

(f) The Borrower shall maintain at its offices a copy of each Assignment and Assumption delivered to it by any Non-Debt Fund Affiliate (the “Affiliated Lender Register”). Each Non-Debt Fund Affiliate shall advise the Borrower and the Administrative Agent in writing of any proposed disposition of Term Loans by such Lender. Additionally, if any Lender becomes a Non-Debt Fund Affiliate at a time that such Lender holds any Term Loans, such Lender shall promptly advise the Borrower and the Administrative Agent that such Lender is a Non-Debt Fund Affiliate. Copies of the Affiliated Lender Register shall be provided to the Administrative Agent and the Non-Debt Fund Affiliate upon request. Notwithstanding the foregoing if at any time (if applicable, after giving effect to any proposed assignment to a Non-Debt Fund Affiliate), all Non-Debt Fund Affiliates own or would, in the aggregate own more than 20% of the principal amount of all any Class of Term Loans then outstanding (i) any proposed pending assignment to a Non-Debt Fund Affiliate that would cause such threshold to be exceeded shall not become effective or be recorded in the Affiliated Lender Register and (ii) if such threshold is otherwise exceeded (whether as a result of a Lender becoming a Non-Debt Fund Affiliate after it has acquired Term Loans, due to repayments, prepayments or Declined Proceeds, or otherwise), such Non-Debt Fund Affiliate shall assign sufficient Term Loans of such Class so that Non-Debt Fund Affiliates in the aggregate own less than 20% of the aggregate principal amount of Term Loans of such Class then outstanding. The Administrative Agent may conclusively rely upon the Affiliated Lender Register in connection with any amendment or waiver hereunder and shall not have any responsibility for monitoring any acquisition or disposition of Term Loans by any Non-Debt Fund Affiliate or for any losses suffered by any Person as a result of any purported assignment to or from an Affiliated Lender.

(g) The Administrative Agent shall not be responsible or have any liability for, or have any duty to ascertain, inquire into, monitor or enforce, compliance with the provisions hereof relating to Disqualified Institutions. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, the Administrative Agent shall not (x) be obligated to ascertain, monitor or inquire as to whether any Lender or Participant or prospective Lender or Participant is a Disqualified Institution or (y) have any liability with respect to or arising out of any assignment or participation of Loans or Commitments, or disclosure of confidential information, to any Disqualified Institution.

SECTION 9.05 Survival. All covenants, agreements, representations and warranties made by the Loan Parties in the Loan Documents and in the certificates or other instruments delivered in connection with or pursuant to this Agreement or any other Loan Document shall have independent significance and be considered to have been relied upon by the other parties hereto and shall survive the execution and delivery of the Loan Documents and the making of any Loans and issuance of any Letters of Credit, regardless of any investigation made by any such other party or on its behalf and notwithstanding that the Administrative Agent, the

 

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Revolver Agent, any Issuing Bank or any Lender may have had notice or knowledge of any Default or incorrect representation or warranty at the time any credit is extended hereunder, and shall continue in full force and effect as long as the principal of or any accrued interest on any Loan or any fee or any other amount payable under this Agreement is outstanding and unpaid or any Letter of Credit is outstanding and so long as the Commitments have not expired or terminated. The provisions of Sections 2.15, 2.16, 2.17 and 9.03 and Article VIII shall survive and remain in full force and effect regardless of the consummation of the transactions contemplated hereby, the repayment of the Loans, the expiration or termination of the Letters of Credit and the Commitments or the termination of this Agreement or any provision hereof.

SECTION 9.06 Counterparts; Integration; Effectiveness.

(a) This Agreement may be executed in counterparts (and by different parties hereto on different counterparts), each of which shall constitute an original, but all of which when taken together shall constitute a single contract. This Agreement, the other Loan Documents and any separate letter agreements with respect to fees payable to the Administrative Agent and/or the Revolver Agent constitute the entire contract among the parties relating to the subject matter hereof and supersede any and all previous agreements and understandings, oral or written, relating to the subject matter hereof. Except as provided in Section 4.01, this Agreement shall become effective when it shall have been executed by the Administrative Agent and when the Administrative Agent shall have received counterparts hereof which, when taken together, bear the signatures of each of the other parties hereto, and thereafter shall be binding upon and inure to the benefit of the parties hereto and their respective successors and assigns.

(b) Delivery of an executed counterpart of a signature page of (x) this Agreement, (y) any other Loan Document and/or (z) any document, amendment, approval, consent, information, notice (including, for the avoidance of doubt, any notice delivered pursuant to Section 9.01), certificate, request, statement, disclosure or authorization related to this Agreement, any other Loan Document and/or the transactions contemplated hereby and/or thereby (each an “Ancillary Document”) that is an Electronic Signature transmitted by telecopy, emailed pdf. or any other electronic means that reproduces an image of an actual executed signature page shall be effective as delivery of a manually executed counterpart of this Agreement, such other Loan Document or such Ancillary Document, as applicable. The words “execution,” “signed,” “signature,” “delivery,” and words of like import in or relating to this Agreement, any other Loan Document and/or any Ancillary Document shall be deemed to include Electronic Signatures, deliveries or the keeping of records in any electronic form (including deliveries by telecopy, emailed pdf. or any other electronic means that reproduces an image of an actual executed signature page), each of which shall be of the same legal effect, validity or enforceability as a manually executed signature, physical delivery thereof or the use of a paper-based recordkeeping system, as the case may be; provided that nothing herein shall require the Administrative Agent to accept Electronic Signatures in any form or format without its prior written consent and pursuant to procedures approved by it; provided, further, without limiting the foregoing, (i) to the extent the Administrative Agent has agreed to accept any Electronic Signature, the Administrative Agent and each of the Lenders shall be entitled to rely on such Electronic Signature purportedly given by or on behalf of the Borrower or any other Loan Party without further verification thereof and without any obligation to review the appearance or form of any such Electronic signature and (ii) upon the request of the Administrative Agent or any

 

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Lender, any Electronic Signature shall be promptly followed by a manually executed counterpart. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, the Borrower and each Loan Party hereby (i) agrees that, for all purposes, including without limitation, in connection with any workout, restructuring, enforcement of remedies, bankruptcy proceedings or litigation among the Administrative Agent, the Lenders, the Borrower and the Loan Parties, Electronic Signatures transmitted by telecopy, emailed pdf. or any other electronic means that reproduces an image of an actual executed signature page and/or any electronic images of this Agreement, any other Loan Document and/or any Ancillary Document shall have the same legal effect, validity and enforceability as any paper original, (ii) the Administrative Agent and each of the Lenders may, at its option, create one or more copies of this Agreement, any other Loan Document and/or any Ancillary Document in the form of an imaged electronic record in any format, which shall be deemed created in the ordinary course of such Person’s business, and destroy the original paper document (and all such electronic records shall be considered an original for all purposes and shall have the same legal effect, validity and enforceability as a paper record), (iii) waives any argument, defense or right to contest the legal effect, validity or enforceability of this Agreement, any other Loan Document and/or any Ancillary Document based solely on the lack of paper original copies of this Agreement, such other Loan Document and/or such Ancillary Document, respectively, including with respect to any signature pages thereto and (iv) waives any claim against the Administrative Agent, any Arranger, any Issuing Bank and any Lender, and any Related Party of any of the foregoing Persons for any Liabilities arising solely from the Administrative Agent’s and/or any Lender’s reliance on or use of Electronic Signatures and/or transmissions by telecopy, emailed pdf. or any other electronic means that reproduces an image of an actual executed signature page, including any Liabilities arising as a result of the failure of the Borrower and/or any Loan Party to use any available security measures in connection with the execution, delivery or transmission of any Electronic Signature.

SECTION 9.07 Severability. Any provision of this Agreement held to be invalid, illegal or unenforceable in any jurisdiction shall, as to such jurisdiction, be ineffective to the extent of such invalidity, illegality or unenforceability without affecting the validity, legality and enforceability of the remaining provisions hereof, and the invalidity of a particular provision in a particular jurisdiction shall not invalidate such provision in any other jurisdiction.

SECTION 9.08 Right of Setoff. If an Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing, each Lender, each Issuing Bank and each of their respective Affiliates is hereby authorized at any time and from time to time, to the fullest extent permitted by law, to setoff and apply any and all deposits (general or special, time or demand, provisional or final) at any time held, and other obligations at any time owing, by such Lender, such Issuing Bank or any such Affiliate, to or for the credit or the account of the Borrower against any and all of the obligations of the Borrower then due and owing under this Agreement or any other Loan Document to such Lender or such Issuing Bank or their respective Affiliates, irrespective of whether or not such Lender, Issuing Bank or Affiliate shall have made any demand under this Agreement or any other Loan Document and although such obligations of the Borrower may be contingent or unmatured or are owed to a branch office or Affiliate of such Lender or such Issuing Bank different from the branch office or Affiliate holding such deposit or obligated on such indebtedness; provided that in the event that any Defaulting Lender shall exercise any such right of setoff, (x) all amounts so setoff shall be paid over immediately to the Administrative Agent for further application in accordance with the provisions of Section 2.20 and, pending such payment, shall be segregated by

 

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such Defaulting Lender from its other funds and deemed held in trust for the benefit of the Administrative Agent, the Issuing Banks, and the Lenders, and (y) the Defaulting Lender shall provide promptly to the Administrative Agent a statement describing in reasonable detail the Obligations owing to such Defaulting Lender as to which it exercised such right of setoff. The rights of each Lender, each Issuing Bank and their respective Affiliates under this Section 9.08 are in addition to other rights and remedies (including other rights of setoff) that such Lender, such Issuing Bank or their respective Affiliates may have. Each Lender and each Issuing Bank agrees to notify the Borrower and the Administrative Agent promptly after any such setoff and application; provided that the failure to give such notice shall not affect the validity of such setoff and application.

SECTION 9.09 Governing Law; Jurisdiction; Consent to Service of Process.

(a) This Agreement shall be construed in accordance with and governed by the law of the State of New York. Each of the Lenders and the Agents hereby irrevocably and unconditionally agrees that, notwithstanding the governing law provisions of any applicable Loan Document, any claims brought against any Agent by any Lender relating to this Agreement, any other Loan Document, the Collateral or the consummation or administration of the transactions contemplated hereby or thereby shall be construed in accordance with and governed by the law of the State of New York.

(b) Each of Holdings and the Borrower hereby irrevocably and unconditionally (i) submits, for itself and its property, to the exclusive jurisdiction of any New York State court or federal court of the United States of America, in each case, sitting in the Borough of Manhattan in the City of New York, and any appellate court from any thereof, in any action or proceeding arising out of or relating to this Agreement, any other Loan Document, or the transactions contemplated hereby or thereby, or for recognition or enforcement of any judgment, and each of the parties hereto hereby irrevocably and unconditionally agrees that all claims in respect of any such action or proceeding shall be heard and determined in such New York State or, to the extent permitted by law, in such federal court and (ii) agrees that a final judgment in any such action or proceeding shall be conclusive and may be enforced in other jurisdictions by suit on the judgment or in any other manner provided by law. Nothing in this Agreement or any other Loan Document shall affect any right that the Administrative Agent, the Revolver Agent, any Issuing Bank or any Lender may otherwise have to bring any action or proceeding relating to this Agreement or any other Loan Document against Holdings, the Borrower or their respective properties in the courts of any jurisdiction.

(c) Each of the parties hereto hereby irrevocably and unconditionally waives, to the fullest extent it may legally and effectively do so, any objection that it may now or hereafter have to the laying of venue of any suit, action or proceeding arising out of or relating to this Agreement or any other Loan Document or the transactions contemplated hereby or thereby in any court referred to in paragraph (b) of this Section 9.09. Each of the parties hereto hereby irrevocably waives, to the fullest extent permitted by law, the defense of an inconvenient forum to the maintenance of such action or proceeding in any such court.

(d) Each party to this Agreement irrevocably consents to service of process in the manner provided for notices in Section 9.01. Nothing in this Agreement or any other Loan Document will affect the right of any party to this Agreement to serve process in any other manner permitted by law.

 

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SECTION 9.10 WAIVER OF JURY TRIAL. EACH PARTY HERETO HEREBY IRREVOCABLY WAIVES, TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, ANY RIGHT IT MAY HAVE TO A TRIAL BY JURY IN ANY ACTION, PROCEEDING, CLAIM OR COUNTERCLAIM DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THIS AGREEMENT, ANY OTHER LOAN DOCUMENT OR THE TRANSACTIONS CONTEMPLATED HEREBY OR THEREBY (WHETHER BASED ON CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE). EACH PARTY HERETO (A) CERTIFIES THAT NO REPRESENTATIVE, AGENT OR ATTORNEY OF ANY OTHER PARTY HAS REPRESENTED, EXPRESSLY OR OTHERWISE, THAT SUCH OTHER PARTY WOULD NOT, IN THE EVENT OF LITIGATION, SEEK TO ENFORCE THE FOREGOING WAIVER AND (B) ACKNOWLEDGES THAT IT AND THE OTHER PARTIES HERETO HAVE BEEN INDUCED TO ENTER INTO THIS AGREEMENT BY, AMONG OTHER THINGS, THE MUTUAL WAIVERS AND CERTIFICATIONS IN THIS SECTION 9.10.

SECTION 9.11 Headings. Article and Section headings and the Table of Contents used herein are for convenience of reference only, are not part of this Agreement and shall not affect the construction of, or be taken into consideration in interpreting, this Agreement.

SECTION 9.12 Confidentiality. Each of the Agents, the Issuing Banks and the Lenders agrees to maintain the confidentiality of the Information, except that Information may be disclosed (a) to it and its Affiliates and its and its Affiliates’ directors, officers, employees, legal counsel, independent auditors and other experts, professionals, advisors or agents (it being understood that the Persons to whom such disclosure is made will be informed of the confidential nature of such Information and instructed to keep such Information confidential), (b) to the extent requested or demanded by any Governmental Authority or self-regulatory authority having jurisdiction over it or any of its Affiliates; provided that the Administrative Agent, Revolver Agent or such Lender, as applicable, agrees that it will promptly notify the Borrower (other than at the request of a regulatory authority or any self-regulatory authority having or asserting jurisdiction over such Person) unless such notification is prohibited by law, rule or regulation, (c) to the extent required by applicable laws or regulations or by any subpoena or similar legal process or order of any court or administrative agency; provided that the Administrative Agent, Revolver Agent or such Lender, as applicable, agrees that it will notify the Borrower as soon as practicable in the event of any such disclosure by such Person (other than at the request of a regulatory authority or any self-regulatory authority having or asserting jurisdiction over such Person) unless such

 

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notification is prohibited by law, rule or regulation, (d) to any other party to this Agreement, (e) in connection with the exercise of any remedies hereunder or any suit, action or proceeding relating to this Agreement or any other Loan Document or the enforcement of rights hereunder or thereunder, (f) subject to an agreement containing provisions substantially the same as those of this Section 9.12, to (i) any assignee of or Participant in, or any prospective assignee of or Participant in, any of its rights or obligations under this Agreement, (ii) any current or prospective financing source or (iii) any actual or prospective counterparty (or its advisors) to any swap or derivative transaction relating to the Borrower and its obligations, (g) with the consent of the Borrower, (h)(i) to any rating agency when required by it on a customary basis and (ii) to the CUSIP Service Bureau or any similar agency in connection with the issuance and monitoring of CUSIP numbers with respect to the credit facilities provided for herein, in each case after consultation with the Borrower (it being understood that, prior to any such disclosure, such rating agency or the CUSIP Service Bureau, as applicable, shall undertake to preserve the confidentiality of any Information relating to Loan Parties and their Subsidiaries received by it from such Lender), (i) in connection with the exercise of any remedies hereunder, under any other Loan Document or the enforcement of its rights hereunder or thereunder, (j) for purposes of establishing a “due diligence” defense, (k) to the extent such Information is independently developed by such Person or its Affiliates so long as not based on Information obtained in a manner that would otherwise violate this Section 9.12 or (l) to the extent such Information (i) becomes publicly available other than as a result of a breach of this Section 9.12 or (ii) becomes available to the Administrative Agent, the Revolver Agent, any Issuing Bank or any Lender on a nonconfidential basis from a source other than Holdings or the Borrower; provided that such source is not actually known by such disclosing party to be bound by an agreement containing provisions substantially the same as those contained in this Section 9.12. For the purposes of this Section 9.12, the term “Information” means all information received from Holdings or the Borrower relating to Holdings or the Borrower or its business, other than any such information that is available to the Administrative Agent, the Revolver Agent, any Arranger, any Issuing Bank, any Lender or any of their respective Affiliates on a nonconfidential basis prior to disclosure by Holdings or the Borrower and other than information pertaining to this Agreement routinely provided by arrangers to data service providers, including league table providers, that serve the lending industry; provided that, in the case of information received from Holdings, the Borrower or any Subsidiary after the date hereof, such information is clearly identified at the time of delivery as confidential. Any Person required to maintain the confidentiality of Information as provided in this Section 9.12 shall be considered to have complied with its obligation to do so if such Person has exercised the same degree of care to maintain the confidentiality of such Information as such Person would accord to its own confidential information.

SECTION 9.13 Interest Rate Limitation. Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, if at any time the interest rate applicable to any Loan, together with all fees, charges and other amounts that are treated as interest on such Loan under applicable law (collectively, the “Charges”), shall exceed the maximum lawful rate (the “Maximum Rate”) that may be contracted for, charged, taken, received or reserved by the Lender holding such Loan in accordance with applicable law, the rate of interest payable in respect of such Loan hereunder, together with all Charges payable in respect thereof, shall be limited to the Maximum Rate and, to the extent lawful, the interest and Charges that would have been payable in respect of such Loan but were not payable as a result of the operation of this Section 9.13 shall be cumulated and the interest and Charges payable to such Lender in respect of other Loans or periods shall be increased (but not above the Maximum Rate therefor) until such cumulated amount, together with interest thereon at the Federal Funds Effective Rate to the date of repayment, shall have been received by such Lender.

SECTION 9.14 USA Patriot Act. Each Lender hereby notifies each Loan Party that pursuant to the requirements of the USA Patriot Act (Title III of Pub. L. 107-56 (signed into law October 26, 2001)) (the “Patriot Act”), it is required to obtain, verify and record information that identifies the Borrower, which information includes the name and address of each Loan Party and other information that will allow such Lender to identify such Loan Party in accordance with the Patriot Act.

 

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SECTION 9.15 Release of Collateral.

(a) Upon any sale or other transfer by any Loan Party of any Collateral that is permitted under this Agreement to a Person that is not a Loan Party, or upon the effectiveness of any written consent to the release of the security interest granted hereby in any Collateral pursuant to Section 9.02 of this Agreement, the security interest in such Collateral shall be automatically released.

(b) Upon the addition of a Succeeding Holdings and satisfaction by such Succeeding Holdings of the Collateral and Guarantee Requirement, the prior Holdings shall be automatically released from all of its obligations under the Security Documents.

(c) Upon any Subsidiary of the Borrower becoming an Excluded Subsidiary (provided that the Borrower has elected for such Excluded Subsidiary to be released), or otherwise having its Equity Interests disposed of in a transaction permitted under this Agreement, such Subsidiary shall be released from its guarantee of any Obligation (including pursuant to a valid waiver or consent, the designation of such Subsidiary as an Unrestricted Subsidiary, or the revocation of any election with respect to an Elective Guarantor), to the extent that, after giving effect to such transaction, such Subsidiary would no longer be a Restricted Subsidiary or would otherwise become an Excluded Subsidiary.

SECTION 9.16 No Fiduciary Duty. (a) The Borrower acknowledges and agrees, and acknowledges its Subsidiaries’ understanding, that no Credit Party will have any obligations except those obligations expressly set forth herein and in the other Loan Documents and each Credit Party is acting solely in the capacity of an arm’s length contractual counterparty to the Borrower with respect to the Loan Documents and the transactions contemplated herein and therein and not as a financial advisor or a fiduciary to, or an agent of, the Borrower or any other person. The Borrower agrees that it will not assert any claim against any Credit Party based on an alleged breach of fiduciary duty by such Credit Party in connection with this Agreement and the transactions contemplated hereby. Additionally, the Borrower acknowledges and agrees that no Credit Party is advising the Borrower as to any legal, tax, investment, accounting, regulatory or any other matters in any jurisdiction. The Borrower shall consult with its own advisors concerning such matters and shall be responsible for making its own independent investigation and appraisal of the transactions contemplated herein or in the other Loan Documents, and the Credit Parties shall have no responsibility or liability to the Borrower with respect thereto.

(b) The Borrower further acknowledges and agrees, and acknowledges its Subsidiaries’ understanding, that each Credit Party, together with its Affiliates, is a full service securities or banking firm engaged in securities trading and brokerage activities as well as providing investment banking and other financial services. In the ordinary course of business, any Credit Party may provide investment banking and other financial services to, and/or acquire, hold or sell, for its own accounts and the accounts of customers, equity, debt and other securities and financial instruments (including bank loans and other obligations) of, the Borrower and other companies with which the Borrower may have commercial or other relationships. With respect to any securities and/or financial instruments so held by any Credit Party or any of its customers, all rights in respect of such securities and financial instruments, including any voting rights, will be exercised by the holder of the rights, in its sole discretion.

 

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(c) In addition, the Borrower acknowledges and agrees, and acknowledges its Subsidiaries’ understanding, that each Credit Party and its Affiliates may be providing debt financing, equity capital or other services (including financial advisory services) to other companies in respect of which the Borrower may have conflicting interests regarding the transactions described herein and otherwise. No Credit Party will use confidential information obtained from the Borrower by virtue of the transactions contemplated by the Loan Documents or its other relationships with the Borrower in connection with the performance by such Credit Party of services for other companies, and no Credit Party will furnish any such information to other companies. The Borrower also acknowledges that no Credit Party has any obligation to use in connection with the transactions contemplated by the Loan Documents, or to furnish to the Borrower, confidential information obtained from other companies.

SECTION 9.17 [Reserved].

SECTION 9.18 Material Non-Public Information.

(a) EACH LENDER ACKNOWLEDGES THAT INFORMATION (AS DEFINED IN SECTION 9.12) FURNISHED TO IT PURSUANT TO THIS AGREEMENT MAY INCLUDE MATERIAL NON-PUBLIC INFORMATION CONCERNING THE BORROWER AND ITS RELATED PARTIES OR THEIR RESPECTIVE SECURITIES, AND CONFIRMS THAT IT HAS DEVELOPED COMPLIANCE PROCEDURES REGARDING THE USE OF MATERIAL NON-PUBLIC INFORMATION AND THAT IT WILL HANDLE SUCH MATERIAL NON-PUBLIC INFORMATION IN ACCORDANCE WITH THOSE PROCEDURES AND APPLICABLE LAW, INCLUDING FEDERAL AND STATE SECURITIES LAWS.

(b) ALL INFORMATION, INCLUDING REQUESTS FOR WAIVERS AND AMENDMENTS, FURNISHED BY THE BORROWER OR THE ADMINISTRATIVE AGENT PURSUANT TO, OR IN THE COURSE OF ADMINISTERING, THIS AGREEMENT WILL BE SYNDICATE-LEVEL INFORMATION, WHICH MAY CONTAIN MATERIAL NON-PUBLIC INFORMATION ABOUT THE BORROWER AND ITS RELATED PARTIES OR THEIR RESPECTIVE SECURITIES. ACCORDINGLY, EACH LENDER REPRESENTS TO THE BORROWER AND THE ADMINISTRATIVE AGENT THAT IT HAS IDENTIFIED IN ITS ADMINISTRATIVE QUESTIONNAIRE A CREDIT CONTACT WHO MAY RECEIVE INFORMATION THAT MAY CONTAIN MATERIAL NON-PUBLIC INFORMATION IN ACCORDANCE WITH ITS COMPLIANCE PROCEDURES AND APPLICABLE LAW.

SECTION 9.19 Acknowledgment and Consent to Bail-In of Affected Financial Institutions.

Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in any Loan Document or in any other agreement, arrangement or understanding among any such parties, each party hereto acknowledges that any liability of any Affected Financial Institution arising under any Loan Document, to the extent such liability is unsecured, may be subject to the Write-Down and Conversion Powers of the applicable Resolution Authority and agrees and consents to, and acknowledges and agrees to be bound by:

 

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(a) the application of any Write-Down and Conversion Powers by the applicable Resolution Authority to any such liabilities arising hereunder which may be payable to it by any party hereto that is an Affected Financial Institution; and

(b) the effects of any Bail-In Action on any such liability, including, if applicable:

(i) a reduction in full or in part or cancellation of any such liability;

(ii) a conversion of all, or a portion of, such liability into shares or other instruments of ownership in such Affected Financial Institution, its parent undertaking, or a bridge institution that may be issued to it or otherwise conferred on it, and that such shares or other instruments of ownership will be accepted by it in lieu of any rights with respect to any such liability under this Agreement or any other Loan Document; or

(iii) the variation of the terms of such liability in connection with the exercise of the Write Down and Conversion Powers of the applicable Resolution Authority.

SECTION 9.20 [Reserved].

SECTION 9.21 [Reserved].

SECTION 9.22 Acknowledgement Regarding Any Supported QFCs.To the extent that the Loan Documents provide support, through a guarantee or otherwise, for Swap Agreements or any other agreement or instrument that is a QFC (such support “QFC Credit Support” and each such QFC a “Supported QFC”), the parties acknowledge and agree as follows with respect to the resolution power of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation under the Federal Deposit Insurance Act and Title II of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (together with the regulations promulgated thereunder, the “U.S. Special Resolution Regimes”) in respect of such Supported QFC and QFC Credit Support (with the provisions below applicable notwithstanding that the Loan Documents and any Supported QFC may in fact be stated to be governed by the laws of the State of New York and/or of the United States or any other state of the United States):

In the event a Covered Entity that is party to a Supported QFC (each, a “Covered Party”) becomes subject to a proceeding under a U.S. Special Resolution Regime, the transfer of such Supported QFC and the benefit of such QFC Credit Support (and any interest and obligation in or under such Supported QFC and such QFC Credit Support, and any rights in property securing such Supported QFC or such QFC Credit Support) from such Covered Party will be effective to the same extent as the transfer would be effective under the U.S. Special Resolution Regime if the Supported QFC and such QFC Credit Support (and any such interest, obligation and rights in property) were governed by the laws of the United States or a state of the United States. In the event a Covered Party or a BHC Act Affiliate of a Covered Party becomes subject to a proceeding under a U.S. Special Resolution Regime, Default Rights under the Loan Documents that might otherwise apply to such Supported QFC or any QFC Credit Support that may be exercised against

 

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such Covered Party are permitted to be exercised to no greater extent than such Default Rights could be exercised under the U.S. Special Resolution Regime if the Supported QFC and the Loan Documents were governed by the laws of the United States or a state of the United States. Without limitation of the foregoing, it is understood and agreed that rights and remedies of the parties with respect to a Defaulting Lender shall in no event affect the rights of any Covered Party with respect to a Supported QFC or any QFC Credit Support.

[Signature Pages Follow]

 

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this Agreement to be duly executed by their respective authorized officers as of the day and year first above written.

 

CLEARWATER ANALYTICS, LLC, as Borrower
By:  

/s/ Sandeep Sahai

  Name: Sandeep Sahai
  Title: Chief Executive Officer
CARBON ANALYTICS ACQUISITION LLC, as Holdings
By:   CWAN Holdings, LLC

Its:

  Managing Member
By:  

/s/ Sandeep Sahai

  Name: Sandeep Sahai
  Title: Director

[Signature Page to Credit Agreement]


JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, N.A., as Administrative Agent, Collateral Agent, Revolver Agent, Issuing Bank and a Lender
By:  

/s/ Peter B. Thauer

  Name: Peter B. Thauer
  Title: Managing Director

[Signature Page to Credit Agreement]


LENDERS
Name of Institution:

ROYAL BANK OF CANADA

By:  

/s/ Kamran Khan

  Name: Kamran Khan
  Title: Authorized Signatory

Check all that apply:

Revolving Lender: Y

Term Lender: Y

Issuing Bank: Y

 


LENDERS
Name of Institution:

WELLS FARGO BANK, N.A.

By:  

/s/ Nathan Paouncic

  Name: Nathan Paouncic
  Title: Director

Check all that apply:

Revolving Lender: X

Term Lender: X

Issuing Bank: X


LENDERS
Name of Institution:

Credit Suisse AG, New York Branch

By:  

/s/ Doreen Barr

  Name: Doreen Barr
  Title: Authorized Signatory
By:  

/s/ Jessica Gavarkovs

  Name: Jessica Gavarkovs
  Title: Authorized Signatory

Check all that apply:

Revolving Lender: X

Term Lender: X

Issuing Bank: X


LENDERS
Name of Institution:

MORGAN STANLEY BANK, N.A.

By:  

/s/ Michael King

  Name: Michael King
  Title: Authorized Signatory

Check all that apply:

Revolving Lender: ✓

Term Lender: ✓

Issuing Bank: ✓


LENDERS
Name of Institution:

GOLDMAN SACHS BANK USA

By:  

/s/ Kevin Raisch

  Name: Kevin Raisch
  Title: Authorized Signatory

Check all that apply:

Revolving Lender: X

Term Lender: X

Issuing Bank: X

Exhibit 10.6

TRA BONUS AGREEMENT

THIS TRA BONUS AGREEMENT (this “Agreement”) is dated as of [DATE], 2021, and is between Clearwater Analytics Holdings, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “Company”), and [NAME] (the “Executive”). Capitalized terms not defined herein shall have the meaning set forth in that certain Tax Receivable Agreement, dated as of [DATE], 2021, by and between the Company, each of the undersigned parties thereto, and each of the other persons from time to time that becomes a party thereto (the “TRA”).

WHEREAS, the Executive is an Eligible Executive Officer;

WHEREAS, the Company is entering into similar agreements with the other Eligible Executive Officers on or about the date hereof;

WHEREAS, the Company desires to provide to the Executive a TRA Bonus (as defined below) upon the terms and conditions set forth herein.

NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the premises and mutual covenants herein and for other good and valuable consideration, the parties hereby agree as follows.

1. Certain Defined Terms.

(a) “Cause” has the meaning ascribed to such term in the Employment Agreement.

(b) “Disability” has the meaning ascribed to such term in the Employment Agreement.

(c) “Employment Agreement” means that certain Employment Agreement, dated as of [•], by and between the Executive and Clearwater Analytics, LLC.

(d) “Good Reason” has the meaning ascribed to such term in the Employment Agreement.

(e) “Ineligible Executive” means each Eligible Executive Officer whose employment with the Company or its Affiliates terminated for any reason prior to the applicable TRA Bonus Payment Trigger Event.

(f) “Qualifying Termination” means a termination of the Executive’s employment with the Company and its Affiliates (i) by the Company without Cause, (ii) by the Executive for Good Reason or (iii) due to the Executive’s death or Disability.

 


(g) “Sharing Percentage” means [•].

2. TRA Bonus.

(a) Pursuant to the terms of this Agreement, the Executive shall be eligible to receive a bonus (the “TRA Bonus”) from the Company each time the Company makes a Tax Benefit Payment to a TRA Party in accordance with Section 3.1(a) of the TRA or an Early Termination Payment to the TRA Parties in accordance with Article IV of the TRA (including in the event of a Change of Control) (each such event, a “TRA Bonus Payment Trigger Event”). Any TRA Bonus payable to the Executive pursuant to the terms of this Agreement shall be equal to the product of (i) the TRA Bonus Amount as calculated pursuant to the terms of the TRA multiplied by (ii) a fraction, (x) the numerator of which is the Executive’s Sharing Percentage, and (y) the denominator of which is (1) 100.00% minus (2) the sum (if any) of the Sharing Percentages of all Ineligible Executives (the “TRA Bonus Formula”). Except as provided in Section 2(b) below, any TRA Bonus shall be paid on or as soon as reasonably practicable following the applicable TRA Bonus Payment Trigger Event, but in no event later than March 15th of the year following the year in which the applicable TRA Bonus Payment Trigger Event occurs, in each case, subject to the Executive’s continued employment with the Company or its Affiliates through the applicable TRA Bonus Payment Trigger Event. Other than payment of TRA Bonus due to the payment of a Early Termination Payment pursuant to the TRA, if any, this Agreement shall terminate, and no further payments shall be due hereunder, upon the termination of the TRA.

(b) If the Executive incurs a Qualifying Termination during the six month period prior to a Change of Control, (i) the Executive shall not be considered an Ineligible Executive for purposes of the TRA Bonus Formula and (ii) the Executive shall be eligible to receive the TRA Bonus.

3. Withholding. The Company or the relevant employer entity may withhold from any amounts payable under this Agreement such taxes as may be required to be withheld pursuant to any applicable law or regulation. All payments hereunder may, at the Company’s election, be paid through the applicable payroll system of the Company or the entity that employs or otherwise provides payroll to the Executive, or as otherwise determined by the Company.

4. No Guarantee of Continued Service. The Executive acknowledges and agrees that this Agreement does not create or grant any right to continue providing services to the Company or its Subsidiaries in any specific position or for any period of time.

5. Miscellaneous.

(a) Governing Law and Forum Selection. This Agreement shall be governed by, and construed in accordance with, the laws of the State of Delaware, without regard to its choice of law provisions. Each of the parties agrees that any dispute between the parties shall be resolved only in the courts of the State of Delaware or the United States District Court for the District of Delaware and the appellate courts having jurisdiction of appeals in such courts. THE EXECUTIVE WAIVES ALL RIGHT TO TRIAL BY JURY IN ANY PROCEEDING (WHETHER BASED ON CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE) ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THIS AGREEMENT OR EXECUTIVE’S EMPLOYMENT BY THE COMPANY OR ANY AFFILIATE OF THE COMPANY, OR THE EXECUTIVE’S OR THE COMPANY’S PERFORMANCE UNDER, OR THE ENFORCEMENT OF, THIS AGREEMENT.

 

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(b) Entire Agreement/Amendments. This Agreement contains the entire understanding of the parties with respect to the subject matter hereof and supersedes all prior or contemporaneous negotiations, understandings or agreements between the parties, whether written or oral, with respect to such subject matter. This Agreement may not be altered, modified, or amended except by written instrument signed by the parties hereto. Article 5 (Subordination and Late Payments) of the TRA shall apply to this Agreement and the TRA Bonus, mutatis mutandis.

(c) Successors. This Agreement shall inure to the benefit of and be binding upon the Company and its successors and assigns.

(d) Counterparts and Signatures. This Agreement may be signed in counterparts, each of which shall be an original, with the same effect as if the signatures thereto and hereto were upon the same instrument. Signatures delivered by facsimile or PDF file shall constitute original signatures.

(e) Unfunded Arrangement. This Agreement shall be an unfunded arrangement. The Company shall not be required to segregate any assets that may at any time be represented by cash or rights thereto, nor shall this Agreement be construed as providing for such segregation, nor shall the Company be deemed to be a trustee of any cash or rights thereto to be granted under this Agreement. Any liability or obligation of the Company to the Executive with respect to any TRA Bonus shall be based solely upon any contractual obligations that may be created by this Agreement, and no such liability or obligation of the Company shall be deemed to be secured by any pledge or other encumbrance on any property of the Company. The Company shall not be required to give any security or bond for the performance of any obligation that may be created by this Agreement.

6. Code Section 409A. The parties intend that this Agreement and the benefits provided hereunder be interpreted and construed to be exempt from or comply with Section 409A of the Code (“Section 409A”), to the extent applicable thereto. Notwithstanding any provision of this Agreement to the contrary, this Agreement shall be interpreted and construed consistent with this intent, provided that the Company shall not be required to assume any increased economic burden in connection therewith. In addition, the parties shall cooperate fully with one another to ensure compliance with Section 409A, including adopting amendments to arrangements subject to Section 409A and operating such arrangements in compliance with Section 409A.

Signature pages follow

 

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have duly executed this Agreement on the dates set forth next to their respective signatures.

 

    EXECUTIVE
Date:______________________         

 

    Name:   [NAME]
         CLEARWATER ANALYTICS HOLDINGS, INC.
Date:______________________      
    By:  

 

    Name:  
    Title:  

 

Exhibit 99.1

 

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Clearwater Analytics Announces Pricing of Initial Public Offering

BOISE, Idaho — September 23, 2021 — Clearwater Analytics Holdings, Inc. (“Clearwater Analytics” or the “Company”), a leading provider of SaaS-based investment accounting, reporting, and analytics solutions, today announced the pricing of its initial public offering of 30,000,000 shares of its Class A common stock at a price to the public of $18.00 per share. In addition, the Company granted the underwriters a 30-day option to purchase up to an additional 4,500,000 shares of its Class A common stock at the public offering price, less underwriting discounts and commissions. The shares of Class A common stock are expected to begin trading on the New York Stock Exchange on September 24, 2021 under the symbol “CWAN.” The offering is expected to close on September 28, 2021, subject to customary closing conditions.

Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC, J.P. Morgan Securities LLC and Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC are acting as lead bookrunners and as representatives of the underwriters for the offering, with Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC, RBC Capital Markets, LLC, Wells Fargo Securities, LLC, Oppenheimer & Co. Inc., Piper Sandler & Co. and William Blair & Company, L.L.C. acting as additional bookrunners. BNP Paribas Securities Corp., D.A. Davidson & Co., AmeriVet Securities, Inc., Loop Capital Markets LLC, Penserra Securities LLC, R. Seelaus & Co., LLC and Siebert Williams Shank & Co., LLC are acting as co-managers for the offering.

A registration statement relating to this offering was declared effective by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) on September 23, 2021. This offering is being made only by means of a prospectus. Copies of the final prospectus may be obtained, when available, by contacting:

 

   

Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC, Attention: Prospectus Department, 200 West Street, New York, New York 10282, via telephone: 1-866-471-2526, or via email: prospectus-ny@ny.email.gs.com;

 

   

J.P. Morgan Securities LLC, c/o Broadridge Financial Solutions, 1155 Long Island Avenue, Edgewood, NY 11717, by telephone at (866) 803-9204, or by email at prospectus-eq_fi@jpmchase.com; or

 

   

Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC, 180 Varick Street, 2nd Floor, New York, New York 10014, Attn: Prospectus Department.

This press release shall not constitute an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy these securities, nor shall there be any sale of these securities in any state or jurisdiction in which such offer, solicitation or sale would be unlawful prior to registration or qualification under the securities laws of any such state or jurisdiction.

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About Clearwater Analytics

Clearwater Analytics is a global industry-leading SaaS solution for automated investment data aggregation, reconciliation, accounting, compliance, risk, performance and reporting. Each day, the Clearwater solution reports on more than $5.6 trillion in assets for clients that include leading insurers, asset managers, corporations, pension plans, governments, and nonprofit organizations – helping them make the most of their investment portfolio data with a world-class product and client-centric servicing. Investment professionals around the globe trust Clearwater to deliver timely, validated investment data and analytics.

 

Global headquarters: 777 W. Main Street, Suite 900, Boise, ID 83702 • Main: +1 208 918 2400

Boise • Edinburgh • Frankfurt • London • New Delhi • New York • Paris • Seattle • Singapore


Forward-Looking Statements

This press release contains forward-looking statements, including statements regarding the initial public offering. These statements are not historical facts but rather are based on the Company’s current expectations and projections regarding its business, operations and other factors relating thereto. Words such as “may,” “will,” “could,” “would,” “should,” “anticipate,” “predict,” “potential,” “continue,” “expects,” “intends,” “plans,” “projects,” “believes,” “estimates” and similar expressions are used to identify these forward-looking statements. These statements are only predictions and as such are not guarantees of future performance and involve risks, uncertainties and assumptions that are difficult to predict. Actual results may differ materially from those in the forward-looking statements as a result of a number of factors, including those in the Company’s registration statement filed with the SEC.

Investor Contact:

J.R. Ritchie | +1 312-632-9779 | investors@clearwateranalytics.com

Media Contacts:

Susan Ganeshan | +1 703-975-5924 | press@clearwateranalytics.com

Gail Marold | +1 919-229-9141 | press@clearwateranalytics.com

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Global headquarters: 777 W. Main Street, Suite 900, Boise, ID 83702 • Main: +1 208 918 2400

Boise • Edinburgh • Frankfurt • London • New Delhi • New York • Paris • Seattle • Singapore